Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...programme arranged for next Tuesday, the visitors will reach Cambridge at about half past eleven in the morning. It would be a very pleasant mark of attention to them if every member of the University who can be in the Yard at that time should turn out to cheer them in front of Harvard Hall...
...fight and there is no danger to limb or feature. It is a good natured tussle for mementos of Class Day, and it is the last time the seniors ever assemble as undergraduates. It is very satisfactory to note that the recently established practice of having the grand Harvard cheer by all the undergraduates and graduates, is to be continued. Probably no cheer like it marks any other college festival in the United States...
...Senior Class will assemble in front of Holworthy, cheer the College buildings and march to the Tree. During the exercises at the Tree the Yard will be cleared and tickets will be required of all persons found in the Yard and of those who enter thereafter...
...Harvard cheer is unfortunately losing its distinctive character. In former years the nine "'rahs" came slowly, and the final "Har-vard" was broad and deep; in the Pennsylvania game the cheer could be but little distinguished from the short, sharp Yale yell. Even the "nine long Harvard's" which used to be so impressive are now cut much too short. The leaders of the cheering seldom try to maintain the old-time cadence, and there is danger that it will be entirely disused. The merest hint should surely be sufficient to check this tendency...
...sixth Brown hit safely and stole second. A faint cheer came from the Harvard bench, but Brown was left on second. For Princeton, Thompson completed the circuit on Chandler's error. Reiter made second on Haskell's, Butler flied out, Easton got four balls, and both he and Reiter scored on Barrett's two-bagger...