Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plainly, wrap it securely, despatch it early, prepay postage fully. He prefaced his message as follows: "The tang in the air and the wonderful colors of autumn leaves evidence the fact that another year is its close and that the holiday season, with its spirit of good-will and cheer, will soon be here...
...muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother-aunt added: "Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg." And Hamlet, distraught and upset, stayed away from college...
...Monday's CRIMSON there was published a letter, signed Delcevare King 95, in which the writer deplores the singing of Yale songs when we are playing colleges other than Yale. He regrets the fact that "we have over and over again the some heavy un-Collegey cheer. Other colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly college students... We may not be able to win..." he concludes (after announcing that we are reputed to be "too dignified to have a peppy cheer"), "but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger...
...means let us do away with the simplicity of the present cheer--which is so simple that spontaneity is said to creep into it at times--a rare presence in any organized cheer. Let us instead drill a chorus of bright-clothed acrobats to thrill visitors to Cambridge with antic contortions on the side lines. For the present cheer, with the pounding weight of lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that...
...wish too you would write a stirring editorial on our cheers. We have over and over again the same heavy un-Collegey cheer. "Yes, Harvard is too dignified to have a peppy cheer" I hear people say. Other Colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly College students and put more zest and snap in their cheering...