Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always thought that Harvard stands were indifferent to who won football games until I stepped in among the athletic chroniclers a minute after the kickoff. From the first play until the last there was not a single cheer or sound or approbation for any play, any long run, any hard tackle, or any score...
...Yale Cheer Features Symbolic "V" Derision...
More than half of the undergraduate body squeezed into the Varsity Club quadrangle last night to cheer, bellow, stamp, whistle, scream, and generally emote over their football team in the most successful pre-game rally of Harvard history...
Anyway, that is the gist of what each Eli says when he gives the Long Cheer, for in Aristo phones' "The Frogs" the frogs yell at the people going to the underworld. "Bre-ke-ke-kex," which translated into American vernacular means "Go to h--, you bums." At the same time, the bre-ke-ke-kex is the three staccato dots and the long dash which stand for "V" for Victory." --From the Yale News...
...long cheer now has seven "rah's," two Hahvuhds, and three "teams." The cheerleaders are still arguing over the short cheer, as one faction wants it to be: "Hahvuhd, rah, ray, team," while the other says this would be untraditional...