Word: yells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that when Artaxerxes, king of all the world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
...Harvard athletes have formed a coast defence unit." Well done, sirs! We can't help believing that the athletes of Dr. David Starr Jordan's university in San Mateo, Cal., will do as well, the doctor's thunders of opposition drowned in the Stanford yell. --New York...
...more generous enthusiasts for general athletics and clean sport--in Oxford and Cambridge the purpose is study, and the honors are paid to the scholar. There are no undergraduate newspapers, no class meetings, no college politics, no football rallies, no business managers, no claques for organized applause, no yell leaders, no dances, no social functions of the mass. Social intercourse during term between the sexes is strictly forbidden; and it is a matter of college loyalty to live up to the rule. Of non-academic activities there are but two--athletics and conversation. They are not a function...
Give them a yell...