Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This may be a startling statement to appear in the editorial column of the Crimson or of any college journal, but--the cheering at the game on Saturday was excellent. There were two sections solidly packed with Harvard supporters, thanks to the recent ruling of the H. A. A.; the cheer leaders were vastly improved over a week previous; and the band proved as good if not better than last year. As a result of all his the support given the team was at once spontaneous and organized...
...state what everyone knows? Because no more convincing argument could be found than Saturday's cheering to prove that we are not in need of and do not want "professional cheer leaders." We said in our last issue that Saturday would be a test of the custom of having the captains of the major sport teams act as cheer leaders. There can be little question now, we believe, that the tradition is a sound one; and infinitely to be preferred to the proposal of having competitions for leaders of the contortionist style...
During the past week there has been expressed no little dissatisfaction with the present cheering situation. Part of the criticism has been directed at the lack of a central cheering section and part at the custom of having the captains of major sport teams act as cheer leaders. Last night it was announced that sections 32 and 33 are reserved for H. A. A. ticket holders. This means that in those sections there will be no one but Harvard supporters, unencumbered and no longer obliged to compete with outsiders interested not in seeing Indiana win but in seeing Harvard lose...
...would be well to bear in mind, in view of this afternoon, the arguments for and against the present system. Briefly they are as follows: the fact that a man has been elected the captain of the hockey or baseball team is no indication of his ability as a cheer leader. On the other hand there is in the mere sight of the captains of the major sport teams leading the cheering of the undergraduates a palpable suggestion of the spirit of cooperation which should exist between all the activities of the College which more than offsets their inexperience...
...CRIMSON is inclined to this second view. It seems to us that a captain or even a letter man will be as capable as any leader chosen by competition. It has been our experience with such "professional" cheer leaders that while they may serve to amuse the spectators the cheering they bring out is not appreciably better than that which, in the past, has been heard at Harvard...