Word: mascotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people even say that Harvard has no school spirit, but I think that misses the mark. Just look into a Chem 10 review session, and you'll see a whole lot of spirited students. And perhaps more importantly, if we have no school mascot to create school spirit, what do people expect? (A little known fact is that in 1986, the year that the San Francisco Giants introduced their new mascot "The Candlestick Crab" attendance went up over 10 percent at games...
...Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens, fresh out of Girls' Latin School in Boston, West tied for second with Hurston in a short-story contest. After that, Hurston and the older black writers took her into their world as prodigy and mascot...
...wake up either the offense or the ghosts of the past. George Vukovich stood where Rocky Colavito once stood. The 5,000 people rattling around the 74,208-seat Temple of Doom looked as if they wanted to wipe the stupid grin off the face of Chief Wahoo, the mascot whose very name was a cruel joke both to Native Americans and to Cleveland fans. There was talk of moving the franchise somewhere else, somewhere nice...
Over the years, Bragg played soccer, tennis andbasketball, participated in student government andserved as the trinity Tiger mascot...
...council itself will vote on direct elections at next week's meeting. If members fail to pass the bill calling for direct elections, the question will be put to the students along with a referendum on a new school mascot...