Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student coming as a transfer from a college where it would be inviting next to murder to sit in the cheering section and cheer for the other side, this business seems very strange. Nobody is being condemned for cheering for the other side; far from it. But to show so little tact and good taste as to sit in the Harvard cheering section and cheer for the other side, is a thing that one would place above the average person with a particle of grey matter in his head. The people who do this know very well that they could...
...about this disarmament question and I guess most of you delegates have probably come here without any definite ideas. It seems to me then that we ought to look at the Washington Conference just as if it were a football game;--all we students want to do is to cheer for the right side". When one learns that this was pretty generally the sentiment of the meeting, one is inclined to be a little sceptical of the talk about college men as leaders. If college men feel that they are taking an active part in the great task...
...holding for this purpose. Whatever may be our opinion of the Liberal Club, as judged by its activities in the past, we can scarcely have anything but approval for their disarmament program. Unless Harvard undergraduates, too, regard the Washington Conference as a football game at which they are to cheer on the right side the meetings at the Liberal Club and those later at the Union will be well attended...
...extremely unfortunate for Harvard spirit and cheering that our transfer students, so desiring, and our non-Harvard graduate students should sit in the Harvard cheering section and cheer for the opposing teams which play here, regardless of what college the teams represent...
However, it is certainly beyond reason that pseudo-Harvard students be allowed to sit in the Harvard cheering, section and there cheer for Harvard's opponents. Possibly the H. A. A. which hasn't seemed troubled about such a matter, might establish a regular cheering section on the opposite side of the field for those men who constitute what has now become a regular section of the Harvard cheering section. SOL A. ROSENBLATT...