Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supporters of the Dartmouth nine were apparently somewhat doubtful of their ability to execute their complicated cheer...
...Such cheering as has been given in the last two games on our own grounds is not such as should come from Yale men, and the sentiment of the whole college rises up against it. A good series of rah-rash at the right time is what all love to hear, but for the two sides to cheer at the same moment as though pitted against one another in a cheering combat seems to us even childish. Let all see to it in the future that there cannot be laid to their door the charge of injuring Yale's reputation...
...News thus comments on the tremendous cheering farce at the Dart mouth game: "The Yale men among the audience now began to assemble on the west side of the grounds, realizing that there was just a bare possibility of winning and that good hearty cheers were needed to give our nine spirit and confidence for the hard up-hill game before them. Up to this point the small Dartmouth contingent had struggled nobly with their complicated cheer, and the Yale rash were wholly inadequate to silence it. But after the sophomores met them squarely on their own grounds shouting with...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMS N:-In the discussion about the freshman game, one point seems to be forgotten, the treatment our nine received at New Haven. After the first two or three innings when our nine lead in the score, a systematic series of yells and cheers was begun by Yale men. Whenever a fly was hit by a Yale man they raised such a shout that the men out in the field could not hear which one was to take it; then, whenever our pitcher went to pitch at any critical point in the game, they would yell and hoot...
...college course and especially after the announcement of his successful competition for a Bowdoin prize. Sumner took but little recreation, much preferring his room and books. He took no part in athletic sports and did not go into society, but was very social, enjoyed pleasantry and good cheer and was a favorite in his class. Sumner's pertinacity in his opinions and purposes was a prominent feature of his character at this period. The following incident well illustrates his immovable persistency. The college rules at this time prescribed an undergraduate's uniform dress; and as one of the details...