Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor von Dobschuts writes on "Die Harvard-Zurufe;" and it is safe to say that our cheer has never before been so learnedly treated. He compares it with analogous customs recorded of the synod held in Rome in 499 A.D., and with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint...
...Lane '81 gave a short eulogy addressed to the person of John Harvard as represented by the statue, expressing the pride we feel in bearing his name A. F. Pickernell '14, assisted by a number of the Chapel choir, led in singing "Fair Harvard," which was followed by a cheer for John Harvard and a regular College cheer...
...cheer leaders have given out a complete statement of the red handkerchief sale and the brass band expenses for the football season of 1913. Previous to the Princeton game, the amount of money collected at mass meetings and by the sale of Princeton excursion tickets was $465.22. The expenses, which consisted of bands at two mass meetings and at Princeton, amounted to $310.40, leaving a balance on hand of $154.82 after the Princeton game...
...Phillips Brooks House was devised. Its essential spirit is informality and agreeable fellowship, for which Thanksgiving time has come to stand. It is a place where men can go to meet their comrades in misfortune and turn part of the day, at least into a time of genial cheer and friendly entertainment. No feeling of embarrassment or reticence should keep any man from the gathering; it is intended for every Harvard man who needs it to fill up his day. In the past it has, and tomorrow it will, make something more out of Thanksgiving day for those who stay...
...long cheer with nine Harvards, followed by a cheer for Yale. The Yale cheering section responded. The Yale team came on the field...