Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt to mix the two; Athletics can contribute no more to "indifference" than "indifference" can contribute to athletics. But together they make a full man. If we are going to have sports, let us have them, and let us play our hockey games with the best hockey sticks and cheer leaders that competition can produce, but don't let us ask the team to whizz the puck back and forth across the ice with their breath. Let the spectators do that if they come, but by all means and above all, let them stay at home if they wish...
Rather than be led to strain throats at the bidding of men whom they will not respect, as they do the present cheer leaders, undergraduates will resent the stimulation of artificial enthusiasm. The Council must recognize that the spirit of undergraduate Harvard is not exactly like that of other institutions; and that therefore the methods of other institutions will not succeed here...
...Cheer leaders are henceforth to be selected on a competitive basis, it was decided at a recent meeting of the Student Council...
...committee of three undergraduates and one graduate, to be selected by the Council, shall start a competition immediately after college opens in the fall, and shall continue until after the first few games. Four men in the competition shall be appointed cheer leaders, on the approval of the Student Council. Next fall, however, five men shall be recommended for approval, one of whom shall be head cheer leader. Thereafter each June the head cheer leader, in conjunction with the committee, shall appoint his successor for the coming year, and this successor shall aid the committee in carrying on the competition...
...decided further that "The head cheer leader shall receive an award for his position--an insignia to be designated by the Committee. All cheer leaders shall receive medals...