Word: rah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...horse threw him. Three months later, in Washington, D. C., Richard Gill was flat on his back and rigid with spastic (muscle-contracting) paralysis. He remained on his back for four years. Doctors had no drug to combat his condition. One "eminent specialist" said that curare (pronounced koo-rah-reh), which contains a muscle-relaxing principle, might help. But U. S. doctors had never been able to get enough pure curare to experiment with its properties...
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...