Word: shoutingly
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First of all, everybody sing! And mean what you sing! Open your mouths wide and make as much noise as you can! If you can't keep the tune, never mind; sing anyway! And shout whenever you have the chance--especially the three "fights" in Soldiers Field, the "Hi, hi" in Veritas, and the "fight" in Harvardiana...
...matter how much they may long to catch every sentence. In fact even a very famous man is entitled, in common with his less celebrated fellows, to the liberty of choosing what he will say and to whom he will say it. If the Viscount could be made to shout on request, which would seem to be what the Post desires, he would indeed be "a restricted Lord Bryce...
Clamor of a crowd is often mistaken for opinion. The art of producing the semblance of a public opinion by a general shout has progressed greatly within a generation. It is easy to provoke such a shout for a catchword which embodies a principle good in itself, without a perception on the part of the crowd that it has its limit, and that they are in effect being urged beyond that limit. Group psychology has been studied until we are familiar with its principles and its use. Professor Dicey remarked, in criticising the historical method of studying human problems, that...
...moment's thought will show that the first objection is not a sound one; anyone who was in the Stadium during the game and heard the spontaneous shout that arose from the Harvard rooters when the long pass was received must admit that everyone wants to know whether it was Crocker or Macomber who caught the ball. The fact that the newspapers-many of them-named the wrong man is not due to the individual ignorance of the men writing the stories. There is a representative of each team in the press box who announces the man with the ball...
Although a Republican mob may not force the Democrats to shout with them or be black-jacked in the old fashioned Pickwickian way, it may derive a fine feeling of self-satisfaction in being merely the largest mob. There is a unit in the parade tonight for every energetic Republican, who wants to make it the "largest mob"; and this expression of political faith calls for no backhanded slaps at the Democrats in the modern fashion. It is "old fashioned" and wholesome...