Word: rah-rah
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...editorial protesting Big Three Snobbery, terming baseball "a game that little boys can play," and calling for President John Sloan Dickey to resign from the Ivy League because of its high pressure athletic policies. The Indians' Green Key joined in, blasting the weekend as organized mid-Western "rah-rah collegiatism...
...gimmicks. Nor is it advancing in the University's tradition to goad spectators into cheering instead of booing and cheering as they wish. Re-emphasis of cheerleading will have no bearing on the present difficulties of our basketball team, but it may turn the College toward the reincarnation of "rah-rah" it has so fortunately shunned...
...least partially a good thing, then the growth of a movement, over three thousand strong, which sports Pogo buttons and chants "I go Pogo" on public occasions must be considered a dangerous phenomenon. The importance of Pogoism is not merely as another manifestation of the growth of mass "rah-rah"; it is possible that this movement may be dangerous in its politics as well as in its social implications...
...Rah-rah" exuberance is giving way to solemn purposefulness on the college campus, according to Robert Stein, editor and author, in a article on "How Wild Are College Students?" in the May issue of "U.S.A...
Spirit at Sarah Lawrence, in the sense of "rah-rah Joe College," is willfully missing from the campus: as one girl put it, "there's little too little spirit." But the Sarah Lawrence student is interested and enthusiastic about her college and the life she leads there. There's spirit at Sarah Lawrence, all right, but it's not displayed with beanies and sorority songs...