Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heads of parading graduates. The baseball team is tasting the first Eli blood that has fallen to a Crimson nine in several years. A Harvard crew is waiting in New London with more than psychology to show to a Yale eight on the Thames tomorrow. Bands play, stands cheer, flags wave. It is an exciting pageant. And it is a curious sociology that lies behind it. Anthropologists of today may well envy their successors of tomorrow the investigation of the Commencement celebrations of primitive American peoples...
Amid the disheartening League developments of last week two factors of cheer were much touted by Council members in statements to the press...
...Buchanan† (now Lord Woolavington), who sat alone with his cigar at Berkeley Square. It was a horse upon which Robert Bishop,** insurance clerk, held the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes worth $600,000.‡ It was a horse for which King George of England politely rose to cheer. It was Coronach...
...rally, the second rally in the University's history, comes on the eye of the oarsmen's departure for their training quarters at Red Top. M. A. Cheek '26, first marshal of the Senior Class and W. L. Tibbetts '26, second marshal and cheer leader will be on hand to direct the demonstration...
This result concludes but a trivial chapter in the rather provincial war of sects. Yet it is of such a nature as to suggest that tolerance is not entirely foreign to orthodox conventions and thus slightly to cheer those depressed by the Dayton trial, if such there...