Word: wildness
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...made, - a record which Harvard has never before made, and let us hope that this will be the last she will have to mourn and Yale to rejoice over. Of course Yale was uproariously happy. Cheering, yelling, hoisting their men heavenward, fireworks, and singing inadequately expressed her wild joy. But this we can excuse, even though done with noisy obtrusiveness under the eyes of the vanquished, since her signal success was as much unexpected as was our overwhelming defeat. But while acknowledging our defeat, it is but fair to say that Yale played her best game of the season, while...
...base-hit, and was beautifully fielded out in attempting to steal second by Tyng to Sawyer. In the twenty-third Carl missed Dow's foul bound; the latter then retired by the sharp fielding of Woodhead to Cogswell. Sawyer flied to Say; Leeds hit hard to Woodhead, who threw wildly to Cogswell; Leeds then, by dancing around his base, annoyed Snigg into a wild pitch, which gave him his third, where he was left by Tyng striking out; Mincher retired by Leeds to Wright, a good assistance; Say drove a hot liner to Ernst, who caught it in his right...
Disgusted with the wild enthusiasm and with the incessant squabbling push which they see among their less fortunate fellow-countrymen, they determine to display their importance by being as different as possible from their fellow-countrymen. Charmed with the easy-going indifference of those elegant men of leisure whose drearily monotonous lives are far less happy than that of the struggling Yankee, they imitate that indifference to their hearts' content. Forgetting that their models have tasted almost every dish that life offers, they finally fall into a state not unlike that of the worn-out creatures whom they imitate...
...that wild march they made...
...Wild Brigade...