Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Apropos the disgraceful scene at the Brown-Yale game, the Yale News thus coments on Brown's methods of cheering: "It took the form of hooting, stamping on the floor of the grand stand and calling the players names; the occasions for demonstration being pitches, strikes, called balls and Yale errors, indiscrimimately with points scored by Brown. The Brown men boasted that it was very dishonorable conduct and said they learned it in New Haven. Now we have yet to learn that it is not a point of honor with Yale men not to cheer at opponent's errors...
About forty freshmen accompanied their team to New Haven yesterday to see it badly beaten. The weather was stormy in the morning, and, although it cleared a little in the afternoon, the sky was threatening during the entire game. There was a good audience at the field, which effectively cheered its nine at every available point; and, although some few manifested a disposition to cheer errors, they were promptly hissed by their classmates, who showed a gratifying disposition to treat our men fairly throughtout. The game from the outset was very onesided: the Yale men played a faultless fielding game...
...were wild with excitement, sending up cheer after cheer for their winning crew. The dense crowds upon the roof of the Union Boat House, and along the sea wall also united in applauding the victors, while the classmates of the defeated oarsmen silently withdrew. In a few moments the gathering melted away, the crews were on their way back to Cambridge, and the class races of 1885 were over...
...terms its legitimate powers. At this meeting, a resolution was passed, declaring that there should be no change made in the requirements for admission to Harvard College without its consent. Here is a direct clash of authority. The fray now begins. The students can stand one side, and cheer their respective champions. But would not all this strife have been prevented, had there been a conference committee between faculty and overseers...
...carefully for the success of Harvard's experiment. The moral of this editorial lies in the thought that, had it not been for the energy displayed by a few at the recent crisis in the life of the Co-operative, no such pleasant reflections as these would come to cheer us when we sit cold and shivering in that delightful resort of Harvard students, Appleton Chapel...