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Sensing their renewed title hopes and leading 21-0 at halftime, the gridders appeared to lose interest in the matters at hand--and so did the crowd. Its collective attention moved to the Harvard cheerleaders, who were flinging themselves about in a display of "pep" almost unprecedented in these mellow parts. The entire Harvard side of the Stadium rose to watch the cheerleaders flip, flop, and otherwise abuse, a member of the Harvard Band. Good thing, too, because on the field, Buckley had thrown his fourth (and second-to-last) interception, and the Harvard gridders were sleepwalking...
About 25 years ago, when Harvard students still held pep rallies instead of protests on the steps of Widener (or have things changed again?), the banks of the Charles were like the hills of Hanover. Bonfires, effigies, the whole shot. Even the House intramural teams had official nicknames. And therein lies the test...
...those were the precise words of Dartmouth president John G. Kemeny addressing 10,000 at a pep rally Friday night. Kemeny, appropriately enough, chaired the commission appointed to investigate Three Mile Island...
This college summoned all of its bureaucratic and athletic muscle to tonight's quintessential Ivy League pep rally. From its revered president, John Kemeny, to its inarticulate cheerleader captain, the message to the assembled 10,000 rang clearly: beat Harvard...
There are no pep pills in this game, although more often than not, there is beer. No one uses steroids, and the men who battle mightily against the encroaching twilight do not get athletic scholarships. There is only sport...