Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would urge upon you the necessity of appointing proper persons to lead the cheering in the different sections. The statement has at times been made, and perhaps with truth, that Harvard men do not support their teams as they should; that they cannot be made to cheer. Last Saturday, however, I was treated to a novel and certainly not agreeable side of the question: A body of Harvard men, comprising one whole section, not only willing but anxious to cheer, and repeatedly asking to be led, and the usher, apparently appointed for the purpose, either afraid or to lazy...
...suggest that it is very desirable to give the football men the encouragement of a hearty send-off. The team starts on its trip to Princeton at ten minutes past eight. It takes with it the best wishes of every Harvard man, whatever the number that are out to cheer...
Tomorrow morning the 'Varsity eleven will leave Cambridge for Princeton. In spite of the somewhat early start,- the team leaves Cambridge at ten minutes after eight o'clock,- there should be a good number of men out to cheer the eleven off. Though Harvard men may look forward with confidence to the issue of the game, it can not be denied that the eleven will be much handicapped in playing on strange grounds. This can partly be made up by an enthusiastic assurance of interest and supply those who remain in Cambridge...
...football game next Saturday (October 19, 1895), on Soldiers Field, Cambridge, at 3.30 p. m. Ask for tickets in Section G, which has been reserved for Brown men. Pass the word along to every Brown graduate, and ask him to attend prepared to yell for Old Brown, and so cheer on her boys in their efforts to put Brown to the front in athletics...
...English athletes will arrive in front of Harvard Hall this morning at half past eleven. It is desired that a large crowd of students be on hand to give them a cheer of welcome, and every man who can possibly be present is urged to be there at that time...