Word: rah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demolishing monotony is a worthy goal, and a far better one than a naive attempt to infect the College with Rah Rah. In fact, the Key seems to be organizing the whole project fairly intelligently--there is a good chance that the project will avoid the sort of snares and pitfalls that finessed the all-college dance plans last year and ended the class of '51 dance...
...Rah-rah reaches its peak in Friday-night rallies. Nassau "P-rades" last almost two hours from the time they start on Prospect Avenue-Club row-to the time they swell into a crowd of (sincerely) cheering students on the steps under Blair Arch...
University officials do more than tolerate rah-rah-ism: last week Assistant Dean Lippincott told the Crimson "We'd do anything to get a more cohesive group." As an example, Princeton has never riveted down the clapper to the Nassaue Hall bell, which tradition decrees must be stolen annually by the freshman class. The class of '50 ran off with 40 clappers in their year, and each time the University bought a new one and tied it half-heartedly in place...
Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
Princeton's ability to mix hard work with rah-rah is its distinctive feature. Often students do both at once. Since the days of a famous grind named Poler, Princetonians have spontaneously celebrated "Poler's Recess" at 11 p.m. every night during exam-period grinding: ten minutes of fireworks, blasting radios, and communal noisemaking in the best tradition of the frustration-aggression theory...