Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday night's game was special for the seniors since it was their final contest at Bright Hockey Center, and all the right ingredients were there: close to 3,000 fans, the Harvard Band in all its glory and the Crimson cheer-leading section in rare form...
Though faced with the prospect of new phone-company rivals, cable companies had reason to cheer. Not only will they be allowed to venture into the local phone business, they will also be freed from any limit on how much they can charge for cable service. All federal rate caps (removed by Congress in 1984, only to be restored eight years later) will be phased out in three years--sooner in smaller markets...
Yale fans did not have much to cheer about, as their team had already fallen to Colgate (12-10-2, 8-4-2) on Friday night...
...find inspiration for this first column, I reread our very own Ralph Waldo Emerson on the duties of the "American Scholar." He delivered an address by that name for the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony here at Harvard in 1837. According to Emerson, the responsibility of the academic is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances...
That is, with one glaring exception. The Harvard men's basketball team (11-5, 3-1 Ivy), picked to finish sixth in the Ivies, is winning games. The Crimson, for the first time in a long time, is giving the fans something to cheer about...