Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceivable that we might make uite a noise without cheer leaders; but it is doubtful if that noise would carry the message which organized cheering does. Leadership brings out the spirit of the crowd. And some men can get a bigger response than others...
...cheer leaders of years past have been men appointed because of their popularity and what they have done in athletics. Often they have led cheering well; at other times we have thought them better athletes than cheer leaders, for there is a technique in leading cheers as there is in football. Moreover, cheer leaders, like football players, are sometimes born with the knack. A competition for leaders, then, where action, voice, personality, and popularity count would not be without merit...
...close of President Lowell's address, Keith Kane '23, captain of the football team, led a cheer for Harvard, and the meeting sang the first stanza of "Fair Harvard" under the leadership of Coach Bingham
...Class Day that it is sometimes forgotten that this is commencement week. As one means of reminding graduates and undergraduates of the significance of Thursday, it has been decided to revive the old custom of having the three lower classes assemble in the Yard on that day to cheer the procession of the classes. If the revival is to be successful there must be more than a handful of undergraduates there to cheer. It is a fitting time for the college to welcome the graduates; those who take part in the welcome will perhaps for the first time come...
...their attendance and spontaneous cheering undergraduates have shown that they are behind the team. Now let us have cheer leaders...