Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprouting both German and Italian flags, Jewish premises could only fly the tricolor of Italy. To greet the Dictators when they arrived at 5:30 p. m., Berlin's whole teeming proletariat had turned out for a holiday "with pay," proceeded to obey exhortations from Dr. Goebbels to cheer themselves hoarse. Through Berlin streets rode the Dictators, and II Duce was installed as, reportedly, "the first occupant" of the President's rooms in the Hindenburg Palace since "the old gentleman's" death...
...when opinion is controlled either for politics or money, we will be on our way to join Joe Stalin, Handsome Adolph and Maestro Mussolini. With those boys you take what is dished out to you. You not only like it if it kills you-but you also cheer for it-or else. That is the end of free speech which is the end of everything properly called American...
...that major Harvard spirit is just what this year's cheer leaders are going to try to instill into this year's stands. Whether cheering makes the team or the team makes the cheering, as in the 1936 Princeton game, is beside the point. The point is simply that last year the cheer leaders were frankly "no good." Good yell leaders form the first requisite for good cheering...
This year's sextet intend to be good. Whatever methods they employ to arouse a little more enthusiasm, they are entitled to try. There's everything to win and nothing to lose from a sincere attempt to improve Harvard's cheer leading. Charley Hutter and his mates aren't taking themselves too seriously. Articles in yesterday's and today's Crimson treated the whole matter very lightly. That's the way to take it. Cheering was and is supposed to be all in the mood of good clean...
...which the leaders of the various undergraduate extra-curricular activities explained the nature of their work must have been struck by the extraordinary good humor with which proceedings were punctuated. Not only was the serious side of undergraduate life outlined, but the spirit of affability and good fellowship and cheer was shown by the tone of the meeting. The stories which enlivened the gathering appeared as a particularly pleasant form of good clean fun. Accordingly the letter which appeared in these columns on Tuesday morning decrying the "mild profanity" and "slightly off-color stories" seemed rather funny...