Word: wild
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have heard the wild cheering in front of the newspaper offices in Boston Tuesday night, a stranger in the country would have thought that some man by the name of Harvard was running for office, and in the lack of sufficient votes to carry him through, his friends were trying the Mexican plan and starting a revolution. The exact appropriateness of cheering for a college in the occasion of a state election is not apparent to anyone besides the youthful perpetrators of the deed. As there was not the excitement in this campaign which has been the excuse for similar...
...drawings in the fall tournament as made on the Bagnal-Wild system are as follows...
Cambridge went first to the bat, and scored a run on a hit, a wild pitch, and an attempted put-out. Harvard retired in order. The visitors scored three runs in the second inning, aided by three bases on balls, a hit, a passed ball, and an error. Harvard again failed to score. A hit and two errors netted Cambridge another run in the third inning, while the crimson was unable to get a man farther than third. The visitors closed their score in the fourth, by scoring a run on a base on balls, aided...
...base hit - Willard. First base on balls by - Ryan, 1, Bingham, 4 First base on errors - Cambridge, 1; Harvard 1. Struck out by - Ryan, 8; Bingham, 10, Passed balls, Bertsch, 2; Young, 2. Wild pitch - Bingham. Left on bases - Cambridge, 1; Harvard, 1. Umpires - Beaman, Farrar. Time...
...line of herdics which had taken hopeful '88 men to the field, returned at a brisk trot with all their crimson banners carefully put out of sight; the Yale freshmen all this time, however, were howling themselves hoarse on the field, and waving great blue banners with a wild enthusiasm...