Word: pep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wednesday night's game when he rang up three tallies and one assist, will lead off at center. This is the same will that began the game with Princeton last Saturday, which the Tiger took 3-0. In spite of the fact that the "wildcats" still show their old pep, the return of Ben Beale in time for the B. U. contest has made the Beale-Dewey-Hasler combination smoother and more effective than the Duffey-Hallowell-Kirkland forward wall. Frank Gleason and Bill Watts will again start off in the defense positions, with Captain deGive in the nets...
...suggest that the College assemble in Harvard Square with torchlight's and flares, and behind the band, march down Boylston Street to the Stadium, where the fight and pep speeches would be made. We would do well to take a leaf out of the book of Andover-Exeter tradition and pull the team along the route in an open wagon. The marchers should sing Harvard songs, and so arrange themselves along the route as to form a continuous alley of rooters for the team. The throwing of flowers before the team's wagon (a custom in use at California institutions...
...effort to prevent what it called "a reversion to the silliness of a past era," an anti-rally committee was formed yesterday. In its platform the committee stated, "This committee is form- ed for the protection of Harvard Indifference. It feels that pep meetings and other stupid exhibitions are more suited to colleges whose pinciple claim to glory is football excellence. Harvard need not imitate her inferiors. Let us not revert to the silliness of a past era nor descend to the level of the jerkwater. Let us remain gentlemen, and let Harvard remain a place above such callowness." This...
...their rally held just before the Yale game, the freshmen gathered in large numbers under the Union antlers, shouted with middlewestern vigor, and demonstrated an enthusiasm which bore tangible fruit in a 31-6 victory over Yale. As a result there have been suggestions that the pep meeting, having had such salutary effect upon the first year athletes, might well be repeated for the benefit of the varsity...
...Inflation horse at the same time, had urged on Sound Money fortnight ago by announcing a long-term bond issue* (TIME, Oct. 23). Last week prices of grains and stocks were slumping. Equestrian Roosevelt undoubtedly intended his radio speech as a special dinner of oats to put new pep into his lagging charger, Inflation...