Word: wild
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acta Columbiana gives utterance to the following bitter complaint: "The Freshmen are very fresh; they are constantly cheering, and indulge in wild discordant yells on the slightest provocation...
...before his cosy fire, listening to his pleasant chat, we think, "lo, how charming is a college life; so quiet, so peaceful, so free from care." This thought has hardly passed through our minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election...
...some days the papers have been full of wild rumors of threats made by the Yale freshmen to give up the foot ball game with Harvard '88, unless the eleven of the latter class should consent to play the match before Thanksgiving day. According to the agreement between the colleges drawn up last spring, the foot ball game this fall was to be played at New Haven. Knowing this, the manager of the Harvard '88 eleven, after having looked over the calendar to find open dates, sent to New Haven proposing either Thanksgiving day or Nov. 29 as dates...
Passed balls and wild pitches will probably be scored as errors next year...
...Thayer. Regulation Ayer's balls will be used. Those drawn in the first drawing are requested to play off as soon as possible. Scores, in order to count, must be handed in each day to Mr. Peirson, at 51 Thayer. The drawing was made by the Bagner-Wild system...