Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie inspired the team's pre-meet cheer ("Go Harvard, Tora! Tora! Tora! Beat Navy") and probably inspired them to go on and bomb the Mid-shipmen...
Certain Scrooges will always insist on staying aloof from all the holiday cheer. They will turn up their noses at the crass commercialism of it all, or they'll point an accusing finger at the jump in the suicide rate during the Christmas season. But perhaps the most pervasive, if not the most pernicious, effect of Christmas is the identity crisis it can cause among kids who are not white or Anglo-Saxon or Protestant. Little black kids find themselves on the knee of a big fat white man with a bushy white beard. And little Jewish kids mut live...
...wait. Echoed from within the visitor's locker room and out marched 20 piping Elis, chiming away their "Hail Yales". All this song and cheer seemed more like improvisational theater than a swim meet, but the Yale tunes seemed to bring luck. The Elis came out singing "We have Overcome," as they sunk a strong Radcliffe team 80-51 last night...
...spirit of USIS functions, Americans spread their winning cheer throughout the reception. Small groups of Britishers, chatting around the room, puzzled over the barrage of Harvard references that had come before. At least one group received an American explanation. "You see, in America we have these powerful centers of learning," a self-appointed authority said obvious disapproval. "Their graduates run the whole country." As she explained this "American phenomenon," her listeners had reason to wonder whether she had ever heard of Oxford or Cambridge...
...rise for Harvard and we'll give her on cheer...