Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unusually large number of graduates, who are in Cambridge in connection with the Hasty Pudding Club's centennial, will be at the game today. Let us show them not only that we can play good football, but that we can cheer as heartily as ever. We have got to do both...
There has been a tendency in the cheering for some time past to depart from the long, deep "rab" which, we believe, is the characteristic of the true Harvard cheer. In urging the maintenance of this style of cheer in a former year we called forth a protest from a graduate who wrote asking how long that had been the Harvard cheer. As to this we are uncertain. But there can be little question at the present time that in spite of the tendency mentioned above, the opinion of most Harvard men is in accordance with that which we have...
...there really is any considerable difference of opinion among Harvard men as to what the cheer ought to be, it would be an interesting matter for discussion, and we would be glad to receive communications on the subject, though for tomorrow we believe that the long cheer should be used...
There is one point about the cheering which has often been unsatisfactory, and that is that in their desire to keep it up the leaders fail to keep track of the game and frequently call for a cheer at the moment when the ball is put in play and when everyone is pre-occupied with seeing what happens. Obviously, the cheer is faint and does more harm than good. There can certainly be enough time for cheering during the game without detracting the attention of the spectators at the very moment when they are most interested...
...football team as they leave for Philadelphia this afternoon. That they will be subjected to the fatigue of travelling within so short a time of the game is a disadvantage which they must necessarily feel, but neither that nor the lack of any considerable number of Harvard men to cheer them on, should prevent them from putting up a plucky, sportsmanlike game; and that, after all, is the most in dispensable requisite for a victory...