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    "verified_text": "cheering, the uttering or making of sounds encouraging, stimulating or exciting to action, indicating approval of acclaiming or welcoming persons, announcements of events and the like. the word \"cheer\" meant originally face, countenance, expression, and came through the o. fr. into mid. eng. in the 13th century from the low lat. _cara_, head; this is generally referred to the gr. [greek: kara]. _cara_ is used by the 6th-century poet flavius cresconius corippus, \"postquam venere verendam caesaris ante caram\" (_in laudem justini minoris_). \"cheer\" was at first qualified with epithets, both of joy and gladness and of sorrow; compare \"she thanked dyomede for alle ... his gode chere\" (chaucer, _troylus_) with \"if they sing ... 'tis with so dull a cheere\" (shakespeare, _sonnets_, xcvii.). an early transference in meaning was to hospitality or entertainment, and hence to food and drink, \"good cheer.\" the sense of a shout of encouragement or applause is a late use. defoe (_captain singleton_) speaks of it as a sailor's word, and the meaning does not appear in johnson. of the different words or rather sounds that are used in cheering, \"hurrah,\" though now generally looked on as the typical british form of cheer, is found in various forms in german, scandinavian, russian (_ura_), french (_houra_). it is probably onomatopoeic in origin; some connect it with such words as \"hurry,\" \"whirl\"; the meaning would then be \"haste,\" to encourage speed or onset in battle. the english \"hurrah\" was preceded by \"huzza,\" stated to be a sailor's word, and generally connected with \"heeze,\" to hoist, probably being one of the cries that sailors use when hauling or hoisting. the german _hoch_, seen in full in _hoch lebe der kaiser_, &c., the french _vive_, italian and spanish _viva_, _evviva_, are cries rather of acclamation than encouragement. the japanese shout _banzai_ became familiar during the russo-japanese war. in reports of parliamentary and other debates the insertion of \"cheers\" at any point in a speech indicates that approval was shown by members of the house by emphatic utterances of \"hear hear.\" cheering may be tumultuous, or it may be conducted rhythmically by prearrangement, as in the case of the \"hip-hip-hip\" by way of introduction to a simultaneous \"hurrah.\" rhythmical cheering has been developed to its greatest extent in america in the college yells, which may be regarded as a development of the primitive war-cry; this custom has no real analogue at english schools and universities, but the new zealand football team in 1907 familiarized english crowds at their matches with a similar sort of war-cry adopted from the maoris. in american schools and colleges there is usually one cheer for the institution as a whole and others for the different classes. the oldest and simplest are those of the new england colleges. the original yells of harvard and yale are identical in form, being composed of _rah_ (abbreviation of _hurrah_) nine times repeated, shouted in unison with the name of the university at the end. the yale cheer is given faster than that of harvard. many institutions have several different yells, a favourite variation being the name of the college shouted nine times in a slow and prolonged manner. the best known of these variants is the yale cheer, partly taken from the _frogs_ of aristophanes, which runs thus: \"brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax, brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax, o-op, o-op, parabalo[=u], yale, yale, yale, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, yale! yale! yale!\" the regular cheer of princeton is: \"h'ray, h'ray, h'ray, tiger, siss, boom, ah; princeton!\" this is expanded into the \"triple cheer\": \"h'ray, h'ray, h'ray, tiger, tiger, tiger, siss, siss, siss, boom, boom, boom, ah, ah, ah, princeton, princeton, princeton!\" the \"railroad cheer\" is like the foregoing, but begun very slowly and broadly, and gradually accelerated to the end, which is enunciated as fast as possible. many cheers are formed like that of toronto university: \"varsity, varsity, v-a-r-s-i-t-y (spelled) varsit-y (spelled _staccato_) var-si-ty, rah, rah, rah!\" another variety of yell is illustrated by that of the school of practical science of toronto university: \"who are we? can't you guess? we are from the s.p.s.!\" the cheer of the united states naval academy is an imitation of a nautical syren. the amherst cheer is: \"amherst! amherst! amherst! rah! rah! amherst! rah! rah! rah! rah! rah! rah! rah! rah! amherst!\" besides the cheers of individual institutions there are some common to all, generally used to compliment some successful athlete or popular professor. one of the oldest examples of these personal cheers is: \"who was george washington? first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen,\" followed by a stamping on the floor in the same rhythm. college yells are used particularly at athletic contests. in any large college there are several leaders, chosen by the students, who stand in front and call for the different songs and cheers, directing with their arms in the fashion of an orchestral conductor. this cheering and singing form one of the distinctive features of inter-collegiate and scholastic athletic contests in america. cheese (lat. _caseus_), a solidified preparation from milk, the essential constituent of which is the proteinous or nitrogenous substance _casein_. all cheese contains in addition some proportion of fatty matter or butter, and in the more valuable varieties the butter present is often greater in amount than the casein. cheese being thus a compound substance of no definite composition is found in commerce of many different varieties and qualities; and such qualities are generally recognized by the names of the localities in which they are manufactured. the principal distinctions arise from differences in the composition and condition of the milk operated upon, from variations in the method of preparation and curing, and from the use of the milk of other animals besides the cow, as, for example, the goat and the ewe, from the milk of both of which cheese is manufactured on a commercial scale. for details about different cheeses and cheese-making, see dairy. from the urdu _chiz_ (\"thing\") comes the slang expression \"the cheese,\" meaning \"the perfect thing,\" apparently from anglo-indian usage. a useful summary of the history and manufacture of all sorts of cheeses, under their different names, is given in bulletin 105 of the bureau of animal industry (united states dep. of agriculture), _varieties of cheese_, by c.f. doane and h.w. lawson (washington, 1908).",
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