Word: hurrahs
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CHORUS.The Crimson forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah...
...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...
...COWLES.It is useless to add anything to our editorial of yesterday. "We have not one of us, been a moment unfavorable to the new plan; it is the best thing for all of us. Congratulations brothers! Hurrah for the new league...
...also good. Likewise their ability to tackle and rush as well as to kick well was noticeable. Harvard tackled badly. This was the chief fault and to it the size of Prince ton's score is due. Then, neither of the half-backs can rush worth a hurrah and only one or two of the rushers. This want was severely felt, for it compelled Harvard to gain all ground by kicking, or by the getting tnrough of the rushers. But this leaves the ball in the hands of the other side and when near the enemy's goal line...
...multiply examples of this "babble of Dead Sea apes." The old hurrah is obsolete, and, so far, as our colleges are concerned, what sounds like the incoherent ravings of idiocy has taken its place. This is a very sad state of things. Our future as a nation will be gloomy indeed unless we abandon the "rahs," the "rockets," and the idiotic sentences which have taken the place of the old mouth-filling and earappalling hurrah. We shall deserve no respect at the throats of hurrahing nations, and we shall even be despised by the Frenchman, who although he tries...