Word: mascotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking of Princeton, they're the Tigers. Yale are the Bulldogs. And we are...The Undergraduate Council has unveiled the Angry Pilgrim as a potential mascot. While some question definitely remains as to how successful it will be, any mascot would be an improvement over nothing...
...looks like the council may have outdone itself (although that De La Soul debacle of a few years ago might be hard to beat). Members of the council, led by the illustrious Joshua D. Liston '95, have proposed spending $3,000 on a new Harvard mascot...
...what a mascot it is: the Angry Pilgrim. It would seem that the Angry Pilgrim would be an unfortunate mascot choice for a sports team, considering that Pilgrims were not known primarily for their athletic prowess or martial virtues. And they probably wouldn't have approved of football anyway...
...having a mascot has always given The Crimson a certain touch of class. It says that Harvard transcends the petty physicality of some dork in an ugly outfit. Why we would want to spend $3,000 just to create a new object of Yalie derision is beyond...
...When two Crimson editors stole the Lampoon's mascot, a large metal stork named Ibis, and presented it to Stalin as a gift from American students, and then the 'Poonies retalisted by reporting this flagrant example of Communist sympathizing to the McCarthy committee, it was funny," Smith writes. "The laughter died quickly however, when McCarthy attacked Harvard for its decision to retain three instructors who had supported the Communist cause...