Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason, English college men do not show their enthusiasm by organized cheering under a cheer-leader, but inspire fight by a great shout at the beginning of the race, or in crucial moments of the battle when one may hear an occasional "Row! Row!" Men run along the course signalling to their respective teams how close their nearest rivals are by firing blank cartridges. After the regatta is over, much publicity is given it, and motion pictures of the event are sometimes shown the same...
...presumption remains at Harvard", he writes, "that a man ought to cheer his team if he wants to cheer his team; and that if he wants to read for honors in mathematics while the Yale game is going on he is no less a Harvard man, although he may not be having quite as good a time. There is a tradition which keeps all good Harvard men together: it is the tradition that they must be let alone...
...literary subject and life;" and that America has been led "to aim, in her universities, at an all-round development, physical and social as well as intellectual, and to provide means of physical and social well-being far in advance of anything we have yet attained"--such statements should cheer considerably those who bewail our method in general. We have much to learn, but perhaps our foundations are firmer than many believe. It is pleasant, indeed, to think that while we can polish off our education by borrowing from England, we can give her much in return...
...will; but while it is getting started, we might well meet it halfway. The schedule includes the first Harvard-Yale basket-ball game in nearly fifteen years--another chance to beat the Elis. The season as a whole will be much harder than last year so, as the cheer leaders say, "Make this a good...
...Harvard team has ever had a harder fight on its hands than Captain Kane's eleven has today. The players realize this. But they are ready; they are confident. And they are counting on the support of the student body. It is up to the undergraduates to cheer today as they have never cheered before and to inspire that team with the stuff that can bring only one result--Victory! E. W. MAHAN '16, University Captain...