Word: clapped
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...idea that there is a college law compelling the professors to stop lecturing, whether they be in the middle of a sentence or not, directly the hour bell rings. At any rate these persons prepare to leave instanter by shuffling their feet, closing their note books with a clap and moving about. Their uneasiness becomes violent if the professor dares to finish the sentence or attempts to make a finishing remark. We would assure these gentlemen that no such law exists...
...When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war angel sounding the onset and hovering over the mingling fray, we little thought then that to-day he would lie so low, surrounded by weeping Sophs! Exult, ye Freshmen, and clap your hands! The wise men who make big laws around a little table have stretched out their arms to encircle you, and for this once, at least, your eyes and noses are protected; you are shielded behind the aegis of Minerva. But for us there is naught but sorrow...
...manner" in which the Freshman nine was treated. Any man who was present at the Freshman match, and heard the hearty applause with which good plays on either side were received, knows how entirely untrue any charge of bullying is. We do think that it is hardly necessary to clap a player who gets his first-base on an error; but it is perfectly evident to the unprejudiced mind that the applause is meant to show the gratification of the spectators at the successful run, not pleasure at the error of the opposing nine...