Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he returns to Harvard in even years to cheer on his alma mater out of loyalty and gratitude. Sportily dressed in a blue felt baseball cap and gray tweed coat, he admires a catch that advances the Crimson upfield, then later admonishes a drunken student for talking during the band's halftime performance...
...public he may show off his old glibness and good cheer, but since the criminal trial ended, O.J. Simpson has not been doing well, say friends and associates. He is broke and largely isolated, gaining weight and receiving no offers that would provide an income. The Rockingham house, where he still lives, is surrounded by two fences and watched by a security guard. Simpson's mother Eunice, his sister Shirley Baker and her husband Benny are staying in the house, with Shirley doing the cooking. To save on expenses, Robert Blasier, one of Simpson's lawyers, is living...
When B.U. fans began chanting "Harvard Sucks" at the game's end, one could content oneself only with thinking that had Harvard fans showed up in number, they would have answered with the cheer "That's all right, that's OK. You're gonna work for us someday...
Pause. "What are the rest of the words?" In consternation and frustration, I belt out "blah, blah, blah, blah, o'er Eli hold sway." Panicked, I realize that I do not know the words to Harvard's favorite cheer. Who am I kidding: not only do I not know some of the words; I can't even get through the first verse...
Jennifer T. Tattenbaum '98 hit on one cause of our Harv-apathy. Sardonically, Tattenbaum explained: "I think Yale people have a lot more spirit...because they feel inferior and therefore need to cheer more. We know we are better and don't have the inferiority complex which results in intense school spirit." Underlying Tattenbaum's justification is an incredibly discerning observation about the Harvard psyche. Most of us are acutely aware of the stereotypes about Harvard haughtiness and, as a result, learned early on to tone down our Harvard enthusiasm. (Sound familiar? "Where do you go to school...