Word: yelling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quick, snappy play. Then the nervous, bubbling enthusiasm of the great south stand was throttled by those three long slow "Harvards" and nine slow "rahs," while even the band struck up "Fair Harvard" to the tune of a funeral dirge. For such occasions we want a quick, snappy yell--something inspiring and encouraging to nerve on our teams. I suggest that, before we forget the necessity of it, the class presidents appoint a suitable committee to compose or receive proposals for a cheer which shall better voice our collegiate enthusiasm...
...there seems to be a strange lack of a college song familiar to all of us. All our gatherings seem incomplete without one. We know how quickly the sympathies of an assembly are awakened by the stimulus of a good chorus. It has the same virtue as a college yell in that each man contributes his part to the common expression, and is conscious of his participation; in fact, the college song is the proper complement of the college cheer...
During the meeting for the election of class officers it was voted to hand down the '97 yell to 1900, the only other proposition having been to give it to '98; why was '99 left out? There are three good reasons for handing down our yell to the Sophomores. The first is that the syllables ninety-nine fit the rhythm of the yell incomparably better than the syllables nineteen hundred; the second is that Seniors have been traditionally most in sympathy with Sophomores, Juniors with Freshmen; and the third is that the '99 Freshman crew by winning the class races...
...Harvard men is in accordance with that which we have stated. The longer cheer certainly commends itself, not only by its distinctive character, but also because, when there is a large crowd, the slower time brings with it a massive strength that does not appear in the short, sharp yell of other colleges...
...Annual football game next Saturday (October 19, 1895), on Soldiers Field, Cambridge, at 3.30 p. m. Ask for tickets in Section G, which has been reserved for Brown men. Pass the word along to every Brown graduate, and ask him to attend prepared to yell for Old Brown, and so cheer on her boys in their efforts to put Brown to the front in athletics...