Word: waving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the "Marseillaise" is sung this afternoon the occupants of seats in the cheering section will wave red or white handerchiefs so as to form a white "H" on a crimson background. The right-hand upright of the "H" will be found by those men sitting in section 32, rows O to R inclusive, W to DD inclusive, II and JJ, seats 9, 10, 11, 12; and rows S to V inclusive, EE to HH inclusive, seats 7, 8, 9, 10. The left-hand upright will be formed by men sitting in section 33, rows O to R inclusive...
...remainder of the cheering section will wave red handerchiefs. Each ticket is marked with the color of the handkerchief its occupant must have...
...year 1905 was marked in football by a wave of reform which swept across the country. Colleges everywhere threatened to discontinue the game, unless it were made less rough and more free from opportunities for players to be seriously injured. In the following year the Football Rules Committee, composed of representatives of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Annapolis, and the University of Chicago, was forced by public opinion to join forces with a committee appointed by the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association to reform the sport...
...field is, of course, of importance for the graduate student. But I cannot see how an undergraduate can enjoy Virgil without learning to appreciate the language, the rhythm, the imagination, the patriotic fervor, and the human characteristics of the great poet, whose vitality cannot be extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study to a man who reads him for the first and, probably, for the last time, simply because Tacitus is great in all these fields and to omit one of them...
...found that the report that Harvard was the college only for the high-brows and the wealthy was false. I cheerfully wave aside the natural feelings of personal reserve to say that Harvard is a place where the poorest can go, where those of the least wealth can go and find a paradise of inspiration and blessing, and find their very souls mounting to higher planes and better things. Who that has walked in the shades of her classic groves can ever still the love that beats in his heart for old Harvard, or ever wants...