Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...down in front of the wall by the 'Varsity boat house. There are now but a few days left in which men can show their appreciation for the work of the Crew, and we strongly urge every student who can to go down to the river today and cheer the oarsmen...
...recent years has prevented its renewal. Now that we are beginning to rouse ourselves again and to see how wretchedly indifferent we have been, let us bring back as many of these old customs as we can. Let us once more line the bank of the river and cheer the Crew as heartily as we now cheer the Baseball Nine. The men who represent us in rowing are surely as deserving of encouragement as the baseball men or the track athletes, and their work is vastly more discouraging. Every day the Crew goes out upon the river and works faithfully...
During the latter part of the '70's, and the early 80's, it was the custom of the students to go down to the boat house every day, during the last week of the crew's stay in Cambridge, and there line up along the water front, and cheer them. The crew would then row up and down the river several times, before going down into the basin, and show the men how they had improved in speed and form. In this way a great deal of enthusiasm was aroused, and that feeling of estrangement, which now exists between...
...Mott Haven Team will leave the square at twenty-five minutes after eleven this morning for Philadelphia, and in recognition of the first-class work of the team during the season, and in order to inspire them with confidence, every student should help to cheer the athletes on their departure. As there are now no recitations, there seems to be no good reason why a big crowd should not turn...
...would again urge the organization of this support by the baseball management. On Saturday afternoon let us hear again the long, stirring Harvard cheers given in exact unison by five hundred men. That is the sort of applause that goes to the heart of each separate player and makes him feel that the honor of the University rests in great part upon him, and that he will do all there is in him to do to show that this trust has not been misplaced. If this sort of organized cheering is not given at the game, and kept...