Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report, however, makes one definite statement, namely, that "students have been known to hiss the good play of their guests and to cheer their failures." Mr. Storey writes me that the committee took no "formal evidence" as to this and are "unable to give any such definite dates" as would enable one to make an independent investigation. I have made what investigation I have been able from several persons who have attended all the important matches that occurred in Cambridge for some years past, and who thoroughly understood the games. It is hard to prove a negative...
...exhibition of the art which gentlemen practice for the development of the body and to stimulate the energies of the mind. In slugging matches two brutes stand up and try to disfigure each other, and when the blood flows or when a man is knocked out the spectators cheer. Any one who says that this is an exhibition of a fine exercise, or that it is anything but brutalizing, looks at the show with the eyes of his imagination.- N. Y. Mail and Express...
...carried by means of a leathern handle. The class generally marches in procession with a band of music. After the second base ball game with the Harvard freshmen, if the Yale team wins, the whole class rushes in from the field headed by their glee club and after cheering each class in succession, they make a grand rush for the freshman fence. The last public ceremony of a freshman's life is receiving the sophomore fence, each class has a fence orator and preceding the ceremony seniors form a line, four abreast and followed by the other classes in their...
...rather peculiar effect is produced by the new Harvard cheer by three Harvards. A Tech man who was sitting with the Harvard men, said that when the leader of the cheering arose and called for "three long Harvards, boys," that it reminded him of a man at the Old Elm calling for "drei lager." Tech...
...cars were specially reserved for the men through the foresight and care of Mr. Palmer, and they were speedily packed with as jolly a crew as ever went forth from these classic halls to discomfort Yale and back their alma mater. As the train moved out of the depot, cheer after cheer went up from every voice, the manly basses of the upper-classmen being occasionally interspersed with the timid squeak of the freshmen. People stared and glared and wondered what it all meant, but when informed by the ubiquitous mucked that "Dem was de Hairvards" their wonder and astonishment...