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...been overlooked in seeking academic ability. His hope for the future depends upon increased scholarship funds to expand the search for well-rounded personalities. Toward the same end but slightly more nebulous is the problem of developing "more sense of a community at Harvard." Not meaning by this the "rah-rah" spirit of some colleges, Bender rather feels the need for reviving that "sense of sharing a common life and common problems" that has been noticeably absent from the local scene in these reconstruction years. Obviously no easy task, the future dean admits doubts as to finding...
Before the war, the show was traditionally a hairy-leg, rah-rah college revue. This year's production is the first attempt at a straight musical-comedy production, with words, music, and lyrics written entirely by undergraduates...
Most of its students go to classes by subway, and one of its off-campus centers of undergraduate life is an Automat. If you want rah-rah, Manhattan's City College (the full, unrelieved title is The City College of the College of the City of New York*) is no place...
...with fun," Otto Hagel, chief photographer for Life magazine, found that students here are more serious out of their work than those at any other American colleges. The photographer, who left yesterday after taking a series of pictures here, was much impressed by the lack of "flag-waving" and "rah-rah" spirit, both of which he expected to find here and both of which he dislikes. He found the swimming pol, the boat house, and Widener very interesting and thought that Lowell House dining hall food was palatable...
Traditionally sophisticated, Vassar undergraduates turn up their noses at "rah-rah" stuff, avoid exercise, have on their list of favorites Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, the Stork Club, Yale, the film You Can't Take It with You, the New Yorker magazine.* Although Vassar is expensive ($1,855 a year), Mrs. Allen declares that "the snobbishness of wealth just does not exist there," there are no sororities, one-fifth of the students get scholarships...