Word: effective
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...notices of withdrawal to take effect before the end of the College year must be entered on the book in the Auditor's office before the close of the dinner hour Tuesday, June...
...inspiring evidence of sympathy. The most efficient cheer in the world is the sudden hush followed by the outburst which follows a really good play. To enable a large crowd to express its sympathy a certain amount of organization may be necessary, but in my opinion the good effect of organized cheering is greatly exaggerated. If there is to be organized cheering there are one or two essentials. In the first place there must be dash, enthusiasm, and speed to the cheer. Nothing is more depressing than a slow drawling cheer from one's own adherents, especially if the opponents...
...CRIMSON has asked a number of men prominent in Harvard athletics to give their opinions concerning the advisability and value of organized cheering both in regard to its effect on the teams and upon the University as a whole. The opinions follows...
...effects of too much organized cheering are obvious. During recent years both in Cambridge and away the home team has repeatedly been entirely rattled by the well meant and strenuous endeavors of its own partisans. The bad effect is due to two factors: the first, to the feeling of the players that their partisans are over anxious and dubious of the ability of the players to do what is expected of them; and second, to the incessant noise, which has much the same confusing effect as a boiler shop, or a train in a tunnel, so that at the time...
...have your favor of the 23rd inst. asking for an expression of opinion on the effect and purpose of organized cheering in connection with university teams...