Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year. Such a spirit will never defeat Yale and Princeton. Men go out to the ball games and sit like so many dummies, almost afraid to cheer lest they may hurt their opponent's feelings, and if they do cheer it is not the old ringing, victory bringing, Harvard shout but a slow dirgelike moan that presages defeat. Would that I may be proved in error as to this in the coming Yale game...
...beautiful and useful combined in one, needing only the bowl-man held in its gentle embrace, after the manner of the acorn, to make the picture complete; at the other end stood the freshmen, in weighty council of war; now they come on with a rush and a shout. Out through the door the mass is squeezed, like a bed-sheet through a clothes-wringer, and down the campus they slide on the smooth crust of snow. The fight soon divided itself into two sections-the freshmen with the bowl man in their midst, striving to gain the gate...
...Many have been the complaints from the graduates of all the colleges that the teams did not kick enough. "Just think what you gain by a kick!" is a very common phrase, and the spectators are sure to raise a shout as the ball rises over the heads of the players, and goes-to the other side. Harvard kicked very little this year. She might have kicked more; she could scarcely have kicked less. Princeton has always been famous for good kickers, and she had a good one this year in her full-back. Yale kicked more than either. There...
Wayne Potter also spoke of the coming university, and a resolution, which was adopted with a shout, asked the trustees to make it a university as soon as possible. - Boston Herald...
...Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides sit Adamses, Quincys, Cushings, Paines, Wards, Warrens, Emersons, and Pickerings, recalling the qualities, and even the features of our heroes, of the Revolutionary period. So may our descendants shout in this very hall, when 50 years, hence, the President shall recall heroic names of our day, and shall exhort another generation to be worthy of their father's fame...