Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that a large delegation of Harvard men are going to New York to see the initial game with Columbia. In times past, lack of support has been complained of, but Harvard will be well represented on Saturday. The Polo Grounds will hear for the first time the Harvard cheer, we hope after as well as during the game...
...Codman, Bates and McKean. The fielding of Pratt was positively brilliant, while that of Train, Holland and Ponde was good. The freshmen excelled at the bat, but were out-fielded by their opponents. A contingent from '90 accompanied the nine and made their presence known by an occasional cheer. The score...
There was a long account in the New York Times of Sunday on the origin of the Harvard cheer...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
...simple form of this cheer is given both here and at Yale. Other colleges have copied and varied it. The question as to how and when it originated seems interesting...