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...pent-up enthusiasm of the Republicans now found vent in a mammoth torchlight demonstration. In the evening the column was formed in the upper entry of the main dormitory, and shortly afterwards the line of march was taken up through the principal corridors of the building. Each young lady was provided with a candle, and a-well, no, not a "black bottle," but a bottle of salts, let us say. The procession was loudly cheered at various points on the route, and it was thought that the affair was to pass off without a jar, when suddenly, as the chief...
...many years it has been the custom of the students of the college at every presidential election, to give vent to their political feelings by forming a college battalion and marching in one of the great presidential processions of Boston...
...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 o'clock, there being fully three-quarters of an hour when the answering cries of the boys-and some of them, too, would come under Dr. Holme's definition of "the boys"-were echoed back and forth across...
...already Harvard was pushing forward and Perkins and his gallant crew steadily forced the bow of their shell forward so fast that at a mile and a half from the start they were ahead and still gaining. It was then the turn of the Harvard supporters to give vent to their enthusiasm, which they did in a series for frantic "rash" and cries of "Harvard ! Harvard !!" until they were hoarse. But this happy state of affairs was not to last and at the end of a few minutes Yale was again in front and this time for good. From...
...your issue of this morning that the students take the proper view of the disturbances in the yard. No one can doubt that the faculty have contributed directly to the result. On Saturday the drums were stopped, and that aroused a hostile spirit which was sure to find vent in some way or other. Then on Monday night, the absurd remarks of an instructor, which received a greeting that on other occasions would have been disgraceful, and the puerile attempts of another, whose long experience should have taught him better, to send the men to their rooms, aroused the indignation...