Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sophomores afraid of their temporal fathers, the Faculty, or of broken heads? We are greeted on every side by taunts and jibes from upper classmen, and even the Freshmen begin to hoot at us. It is unbearable; something must be done. Fifteen or twenty of us get together and shout lustily for '87 and then throw ourselves upon the advancing column; our classmates are now in duty bound to assist us, and soon a big crowd is collected. Just at this moment a policeman hastens up and orders the streets to be cleared. He is greeted with jeers...
...late hour in the night the committee of the Harvard Union worked over the returns from the several classes. The result of the vote from the senior class, 95 for Cleveland and 58 for Blaine, was greeted with prolonged applause by the Cleveland members of the committee. This shout was, however, immediately quelled, when the chairman of the junior class sub-committee, announced the strong Blaine vote of that class. When the sophomore and freshman classes followed in favor of the republican nominee, the Cleveland men were subdued, but had their hopes raised by the returns from the graduates...
...forgotten, the treatment our nine received at New Haven. After the first two or three innings when our nine lead in the score, a systematic series of yells and cheers was begun by Yale men. Whenever a fly was hit by a Yale man they raised such a shout that the men out in the field could not hear which one was to take it; then, whenever our pitcher went to pitch at any critical point in the game, they would yell and hoot so as to upset him. They also would cheer for our side's errors, or again...
...event of such a case then, arrived at the fire, the fore girl will shout, as loudly as is consistent with propriety, through her speaking trumpet, and the firegirls, after putting on their rubbers and waterproofs, will connect the water pipe-for it would be hardly delicate to refer to it in public as "hose"-and turn on the water. Armed with large tack hammers, the firegirls will break open doors and windows and place step ladders against the wall of the burning building to assist the inmates to escape. That the firegirls should actually ascend the step ladders...
Some of the notices posted at the Law School are original, to say the least. For instance, the following: "Will the person who through mistake purloined my umbrella please return it to its grief-stricken owner and shout the beer. All will then be forgiven and forgotten." Another notice, posted not long ago, read: "Will somebody please find my knife that I lost and return...