Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball controversy between Princeton and Harvard will have a tendency of course to bring out expressions of ill-feeling in the excitement of this afternoon; but this must not be. We cannot afford as gentlemen to depart from the position we have thus far taken, and every inclination to hiss or call out to the players must be summarily suppressed...
...report, however, makes one definite statement, namely, that "students have been known to hiss the good play of their guests and to cheer their failures." Mr. Storey writes me that the committee took no "formal evidence" as to this and are "unable to give any such definite dates" as would enable one to make an independent investigation. I have made what investigation I have been able from several persons who have attended all the important matches that occurred in Cambridge for some years past, and who thoroughly understood the games. It is hard to prove a negative...
During the middle-weight sparring a slight disposition to hiss the more violent passes was shown by a part of the audience, but this was suppressed by the larger part who showed their disapproval by loudly applauding the contestants...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: An example of a judicious use of hissing occurred in Sever 11 Wednesday afternoon at Prof. James' lecture. Every American citizen has a right to hiss anything that displeases him, and this right was exercised in a good cause on that occasion. The lecture room was packed to its fullest capacity and of course the closeness was almost unbearable. Last year a man fainted at the very corresponding lecture in this course. In spite of this, a man near the windows attempted to close the few windows that were open. The rest of the audience very properly...
...applaud were lost, 15f; a moan, followed by applause at the end of a scene of murder, 12 1/2f; ordinary laughter, 5f; bursts of laughter, 10f; exclamations - "Oh, how droll!" etc., 15f; superlative exclamations - "It is simply magnificent!" "It is unequalled!" 20f. The sifflet a succes, or "the friendly hiss," is not, we learn, supplied under 20f. The item which strikes our fancy most is the "moan followed by applause at the end" of a murder scene, for which the groanist gets 10s. 5d. "a go." The profession of actor is often a lucrative one; of a playwright who hits...