Word: venting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...soothe the savage breast," but we are forced to say that either before or after that time it is most potent to rouse all the innate evil of which that savage breast is capable. Study is quite impossible when a tuneful youth, lost in musical devotion, is giving vent to a series of efforts which cannot but be easily heard even from afar off. When more than one is performing, as sometimes happens, the effect is indescribable-it is really unique. But, in all seriousness, men ought to be more careful how they break the rules in this respect...