Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down and steady their hands in order to light a cigar. Gray-haired, venerable-looking men entered into the sport with all the zeal of their young friends just out of college. The enthusiasm of the latter found vent in cheers that prolonged the game from four till nearly seven...
...graduates in order. Each class will keep to the left; the juniors walking around the tree and occupying the northwest corner, and as far as the second window in Holden Chapel. The sophomores will follow, leaving a space of three feet between them and the juniors, and will sit in the south-west corner; and towards the juniors the freshmen will sit next, leaving three feet between them and the sophomores along the south side to the south-east corner. The graduates will sit from the southeast corner towards the entrance. After the cheering the seniors will form two rings...
...least, the students of the college, remember as we pursue our daily walks today the sacrifice which our friends and relatives gladly underwent that our government might be kept firm and united. If we cannot show our appreciation of this sacrifice by annual ceremonies, we can feel as we sit within the hall erected to their memory that their deeds have been honored in a far better way than lies within our power...
...four possessors of fish horns and boyish lovers of noise in general, and cannon crackers in particular, should be allowed to turn Harvard square into pandemonium, is a disgrace to the Cambridge police. It is the duty of the CRIMSON as the representative of the best college sentiment, to sit down on those young gentlemen who seize every opportunity to make nuisances of themselves...
...keep it free for them Men ought to be especially careful that no crowding or pushing goes on today on the floor, for not only does it make a tedious and disagreeable delay, but it also materially obstructs the view from the benches. If every one will only sit still in his place, all trouble will be done away with, and the contest can proceed without these unnecessary sciences...