Word: rah
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Junior canes are on sale at the Houston Club. Juniors since time immemorial have exercised their privilege to carry canes during this week. Don't call a University tradition rah-rah stuff. Don't think that you will be conspicuous because of your cane. If the class works as a unit, you will be far more conspicuous without...
This year the Yard has been frequently troubled by "rah! rah!" riots. Rhinehart nights with their accompaniment of broken windows and smashed furniture, have been very much in favor. On one occasion, according to reports, the members of a "rough-house" went so far as to attempt hazing Freshmen...
...keep in the background. So far, this year's extra hospitality has been misspent for, instead of appreciating such kindness, the underclassman has taken the attitude that no activity, college or social, can exist without him. And so, haughty and proud of his supposed fame, like the "rah-rah boy" posters, pipe in mouth, he struts through the Yard sometimes even condescending to answer the greeting of the upperclassman. To say that this is true of all present Freshmen is of course absurd. There are many who stick to old traditions and behave as they should, but these pass unnoticed...
...Freshman comes to feel that he has at last reached a grown-up institution and that it is up to him to put away childlike things. Very often his illusions of what a college ought to be are shattered. Gone are the Ralph Henry Barbarism of "frattiness" and the "rah-rah" spirit. He must even desert the "campus" for the more prosaic Yard. Usually the illusion is broken in a few months, and he begins to accept complacently and finally with satisfaction,--Pharasaical, if you will,--that this college is different...
There is little, if any, of the college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...