Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard cheering in the past has "truly represented the opinions and temperament of the undergraduates", it is high time for a housecleaning. The cobwebs were swept away from dusty undergraduate loyalty in time for the last Harvard-Yale game, and newspaper correspondents were quite justified in their commendation of Harvard cheering. There were three extra cheer-leaders for that game, and at least one of them was of the entering class and has as yet no chance for records of achievement "on a half dozen different teams" at Harvard...
...only conceivable argument for identifying cheer leaders with major sprot captains rests on the grounds of dignity, so let us bid adieu to the old system with the most approved form of dignified cheer and usher in the new with a trial of its effects on the scores before any opinions are passed. Philip Walker...
...must seem to some observers that the present cudgeling over the question of cheer leading rests less upon an absolute opposition than upon a failure to separate the various issues involved. One batallion urges the retention of the present system, in the name of "indifference"; its opponents urge the competitive system in the expectation that it will aid in the restoration of Harvard's athletic prowess. Are these two slogans really incompatible...
...college yells. Those chaotic confusions of trills, barks, and sensless syllables arouse, and justly, the disgust of those who hope that college is a breeding ground of intelligent manhood. But is there in the recommendation of the Council any suggestion that such idiocies are to be perpetrated? The present cheer, when efficiently and enthusiastically supported by the stands, resounds majestically within the Stadium and the Bowl. There is no threat against the dignity and strength of the traditional cheer...
...indifferents" might justly revolt against the introduction of collegiate barbarisms, but the issue is not of changing the cheer, but of securing a maximum of volume and rhythm in the present cheer. A system of competition is to be established. But the crowd at a game is singularly averse to experiments in cheering, since vocal enthusiasm is only a by-product of interest in the game; and "chamber-expositions" of cheering are hardly a satisfactory test of merit in the field. Any group of vigorous and agile young men, who attack the problem with sufficient intelligence, numbers, and zest...