Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With this issue our labors for this term are over. We leave our cold sanctum with a hearty cheer for the CRIMSON and turn our attention to thoughts of vacation and home. We would that all students could share our pleasure in Christmas anticipations, but we suppose some few are compelled to remain in Cambridge, and seek mental strength from the library, and physical satisfaction from the Christmas dinner at Memorial. For the Jester and our associate the Advocate, we would wish all the blessings of the season and renewed strength of wit and literary acumen. We rejoice...
...grand stands were resplendent with beauty of face and of color. Foot-ball was now almost as popular with the fair sex as progressive euchre. The appearance of the contestants was awaited with great eagerness. At last they came, and were greeted by generous applause. But not a college cheer was heard; for such an undignified manifestation of approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum. But the players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress...
...sensational report, in one of the Boston papers, to the effect that a Harvard sophomore used the college cheer to encourage one of the contestants in a slugging match in that city, is declared, upon competent authority, to be entirely false...
...high a pitch at this time over the battles on the foot-ball field. Let the members of the different classes encourage their teams by being present at the games, by evincing more than a passing interest in the results, and by showing how heartily they are able to cheer. The hearty cheering will have the advantage of warming both the bodies of the cheerers and spectators, and the spirits of the contestants...
...from a thousand throats, and the plaudits of the fair ones in the balconies. On they come, till they are opposite the senior fence; "Halt," cries their leader, and the column comes to a rest. Then the seniors rise, and at the command of their chief give three hearty cheers for '88, who respond by three equally strong ones for '85. Acknowledging this courtesy, '85 gives three more cheers for the freshmen, who doff their hats and move on to the junior fence, where the same scenes are repeated. As they round the corner of Elm street and halt opposite...