Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reading room to be distinctly heard. They communicate with each other in an audible murmur, which arouses the curiosity and interferes with the work of everybody near them, but gratifies the curiosity of no one. Consequently, there is a general suspense and impatience, which is very telling on the nervous force of some of the weaker students. We therefore beg those persons who have matters of sufficient importance to be communicated in the library, to speak aloud...
...politely to the others and says, "Please pass me the ball." When he gets it in his gloved hands, all other players retire to a safe distance, and after asking permission of the referee, and saying his prayers, he kicks the ball. No shouting is allowed, because it scares nervous players (and all our boys are preternaturally nervous), and besides it irritates the throat and predisposes to the lung troubles so rife in this climate. Any player who accidentally strikes another shall be at once arrested, taken to the Municipal Court and fined one hundred dollars for aggravated assault...
...policeman, whose duty it shall be to look after the yard and fields. The college yard is fast becoming a grand playground for Cambridge infant muckerdom. Exciting bicycle races between ten-year-olders on squeaking, rattling "machines," eliciting shrill yells from their mucker audience, are not soothing to the nervous systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm weather. We have in mind...
...last ten years. In the eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down and steady their hands in order to light a cigar. Gray-haired, venerable-looking men entered into the sport with all the zeal of their young friends just out of college. The enthusiasm of the latter found vent in cheers that prolonged the game from...
...reply to our correspondent of this morning, we can only say, that while we do not set ourselves up as a criterion of etiquette we feel competent to answer the question which he asks. To quiet the fears of nervous guardians and anxious mammas, we wish to make public a fact already generally well known, that the base-ball games at Harvard are held in the afternoon at an hour leaving plenty of time after the match to reach home after dark. It has always been a custom for students to invite ladies to these games, and we never noticed...