Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Banquets. First to dine the 2,000 legionaries were 2,000 French veterans. Tables totaling a mile in length were placed in the open court in the Hotel des Invalides. It rained and blew but the diners wore overcoats. Detachments led by cheerleaders would rush to the head table, cheer Marshal Foch, General Pershing, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, Commander Savage...
Other resolutions: condemned destructive criticism of the U. S. Constitution and Supreme Court; added 25 cents to Legion dues to support the American Legion Monthly; advocated Nov. 11 as a national holiday, "Armistice Day;" sent a cable of cheer to legionary James Joseph Tunney in Chicago; endorsed the Boy Scouts; bestowed the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal on Count De Jean of the French Foreign Office for his reception arrangements; chose San Antonio, Tex., for the 1928 convention...
...Western college supporters, especially the Big Ten, seem to be "on the par" as far as Eastern papers are concerned merely because the Big Ten graduates in the East are planning to get-together and cheer Purdue when the Crimson of Harvard gets into action on the same field as the Old Gold and Black of "that small college located somewhere in Indiana...
...paper claims that over half of the modern Americans who will cheer for Purdue have never even been through the town in which Purdue is located. Probably that is true, but just the same 300 modern Americans will be in the stands stratuing every chord in their vocal organs and they will root with might and main for "dear old Purdue." We had never thought of it before but that little phrase "dear old Purdue" is almost as catching as one sometimes connected with Harvard, and we are glad newspaper...
...interested in trying out for cheer leading who have not yet entered the competition may do so by reporting to A. H. O'Neill '28, at 4.30 o'clock in the Locker Building on Soldiers Field. This will be the last opportunity to enter the competition...