Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claude Monet, blind French painter and last of the great Impressionists, recovered his eyesight after a surgical operation at which his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable " series" which made him famous. But at least he has recovered, for himself, what he chiefly sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little...
...sports season reaches its semi-finals this evening, with the triangular track meet and the second Princeton hockey game contending for honors. Captain Owen's team will be on unfamiliar ice in the new Baker. Memorial rink, and the players will lack the support of a friendly audience to cheer them; but they will have the memory of an earlier defeat to urge them...
...self-control. We are inclined to forgive them. At some games we wonder that, in a fierce physical encounter, our hot-blooded youth can be trained to keep their tempers as well as they do. The game of 1922 combined the intensity of football with the chivalry of tennis. Cheer leaders, bands, coaches, players vied with one another in generous treatment of their rivals. The Yale captain was deservedly cheered by the Harvard section: Yale and Harvard players helped each other up after a down...
...there are only ten days ahead, an average vacation of two days of travel, two days of frenzied activity, and six days of sleep. And there are croakers to talk of the good old Christmases with the house banked by three feet of snow without and warmed by good cheer within. But after all, they are but a few. Christmas is still Christmas, whether you spend it in New Jersey or in Widener digging up data on early Mediterranean pirates. And the CRIMSON, after pulling down the editorial windowshades for the year, pauses only for best wishes to the rest...
...After a cheer for the team President R. F. Herrick '90 welcomed the players and introduced Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 who acted as toastmaster throughout the evening...