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Howard also felt that her rah-rah style of pep and emotion didn't wash with her upperclassmates. "It's an individual psyche here, not a group thing. Everybody had to be laid back and act like they were cool," said Howard, who went on to play varsity basketball that first year before joining the track team as a junior...
They are similar kinds of players, to an extent. Both are experienced (Clark's a three-year starter); both play with power and uncanny consistency; and both lend a quality of quiet, non-rah-rah leadership to the Harvard program. And both are very, very good...
...well-performed play despite its direction. The Pudding theater is a good stage for any group to exploit, more comfortable and ample for the audience than Agassiz, for instance. An organization devoted to Shakespeare is not a bad idea, either. The bard is in no way too rarefied for rah-rah spirit. And great plays should be as accessible and as polished as possible; even when full potential is not reached, the production is always interesting in the true sense of the word. That's what makes plays similar to music and more exciting than film. Plays can be done...
...like my rah-rah, "Go Terriers!" friend from B.U. said to me last Sunday after the Beanpot death scene, "Hey, that wasn't anything resembling the team that almost beat us in December...
...There's nothing phony or hypocritical about being a rah-rah," says the spirited coach. "People try to knock the Harvard image, and if they can do that through the basketball program, they will. But we're not gonna give them the chance, because there'll be nothing in this program to knock...