Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of Harvard but the President of Dartmouth who lately declared that chief among the problems of university administration is the "emotional alumnus." The phrase flashed memories of ragtime hands and acrobatic cheer leaders, of snake dancers, of comic opera commencement costumes, of hand-organs and monkeys and goats. But more than such things, it now appears, proceed from the emotional graduate. In his intellectuals also there is ragtime and motley...
After the mass meeting last night, S. B. Kelley '25, head cheer leader; gave the CRIMSON the following statement...
When Mr. Baker arose to speak, after the long Harvard cheer, he was over-come with emotion. He was capable only of expressing his deep gratitude...
Harvard rooters, horrified, uttered "regular Harvard cheers" at the half-hearted bidding of half-hearted cheer leaders, and sang occasional lines of the songs that were written for Harvard to sing against Yale. The Harvard band never had a chance on earth after the Princeton band got started. Most emphatically it was a shameful Harvard...
Every Harvard man was ashamed of the team's showing, and every Harvard graduate was disgusted with the way the team was supported. Only a comparative handful had been to the Football Mass Meeting, and but few had marched with the band to the Stadium to cheer the beam the Thursday before the biggest home game of the year...