Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they are going "to lay for so and so! " What must the spectators think of Harvard students when they see one man "slug" another around the Tree on Class Day? The first thing they do is to hiss, as those of us who were at the last few Class Days well remember. Then they leave Cambridge with fine impressions of the Harvard man! The mere fact that only one such case of dirty work is liable to occur ought to be enough to stop the exercises. Finally, there is absolutely...
...NATURAL form of disapproval of the conduct of a visiting team or of some member of that team, is a tendency to hiss. Often when the contest is close and the crowd in a state of excitement, men will give vent to their feelings over some unfair play by roundly hissing the man who made it, However reprehensible his conduct may be, this way of condemning it is about as ungentlemanly as the unfair play itself. It certainly is against the spirit of the University. A visiting team no matter what its principles may be, must be looked upon...