Word: ah
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tuesday's race, took place yesterday afternoon, and was won by number six. The crews struggled ard and neither get the advantage until opposite the boat house when number 6 gradually crept away from number 3 At the finish number 6 was three quarters of a length ah ad The winning crew was made up as follows...
...between all that and the present fair days. Now come the delicious siestas after dinner under the trees of the yard, while we smoke philosophically and listen to the glee club. Now is the tennis, the ball games, the boating and the cool winds blowing into our open windows. Ah! ye gods! why can this not last always...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
...scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present champions. - Life. Ah, indeed...
...rocket cheer" of Princeton, 'Rah! 'Rah! Rah! S-s-t-boom - ah! probably ranks next in point of interest. It also sprang up as the result of athletic enthusiasm, first venting itself over some triumph. It certainly is very original and striking. The cry of Cornell is doubtless noisiest and most irreverent of college cheers, still it has a certain vigor about it that is attractive. The original form was Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell! Cornell! but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell - like...