Word: yells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the Harvard game it is customary for Yale to have a football rally and at this football rally it is customary for all Yale undergraduates to yell and cheer. This year, however, only 500 were gathered together in the name of Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit...
...What baffles me is, how to get the message across. Where can one start? One cannot simply speak words into the Infinite, nor will the Law allow me to yell at him in the Georgian...
...Prime Minister on the following morning walked into the reading room in the press gallery, there to hold a conference with the Parliamentary reporters. As he strode into the room he was greeted with a good-natured yell: "We want Cunliffe-Lister!" Smiling, Mr. Baldwin returned the chaff: "I am glad to have a chance of meeting people who really make and unmake men and Governments. I present myself with some trepidation before you. I think it is extraordinarily kind of you to care to have me among you at this moment, when a vote of censure is overhanging...
...Hear that Tiger roar! Far above Cayuga's waters, Watch the Red Team score. Three, cheers for Old Nassau, my boys, Three cheers, and one more yell, O hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Hail, all hail, Cornell...
...very well that Easterners should boost the East and the native sons of California shout their claim to fame in every ear, but when the Mid-West gets together and plans to yell for their section, the East seems to become offended. Eastern papers are said to be a sophisticated lot, but when one of them comes forth with a story filled with bunk and hokum about the so-called "comparatively unimportant college grid contest," then the boosters of the Mid-West cry "On to Harvard" with the largest possible exclamation point added for both Purdue and Indiana...