Word: wildest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...duties of civic life, taking as his text the Yale spirit of grit and persistence as seen in the football game on Saturday. When the speech was finished, Captain McBride and each member of the team was called up before the meeting to be cheered, amid the wildest enthusiasm seen at Yale in years...
Enthusiasm of the wildest and most rampant kind pervaded Yale at the close of the first debate ever won from Harvard. Of course it was a freshman class affair - but '98 has done herself proud by the real service which its representatives have rendered to Yale - in vanquishing the speakers from Harvard, eloquent and finished though they were. It is believed now that the tide in Yale debating has been turned, and a return to the old days of the Linonian and Brothers societies is not far off. The sophomores this evening conferred a unique honor upon the three Yale...
...Football has of course been the most recent topic of discussion before the Faculty, and the wildest rumors have from time to time started about contemplated action. The matter has not yet been settled. It is before the Faculty in the form of a motion to prohibit all games at or near New York. It is thought that the most radical action that will be taken will be the shortening of the season by perhaps a week, so that the last game shall be played at the latest a week before Thanksgiving. But even as much action as this...
From his boyhood, Mr. Chaillu said, he had been fond of animals, and had then learned how to preserve them. He was eager to go into the wildest parts of the world, and when seventeen, set sail for Africa...
Outing devotes more space than usual this month to its fiction. There are five stories most notable among which is Edgar Fawcett's "A Comedy of Counterparts." There is a very entertaining paper by Arthur Montebiore on "Some Famous Alpine Ascents," illustrated with sketches of some of the wildest Swiss mountains...