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...received the deanship, a job from which many another institution has vainly tried to pry him. Once he was actually elected president of the University of Wisconsin. On the wintry night he turned it down, 700 Law School students crowded around his house to cheer: "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Pound, Pound, POUND." Twice married but childless, fatherly Dean Pound has helped many a student through social and financial troubles. Roscoe Pound's day begins at 6:30 a. m., ends at midnight. Often he spends most of it inside his walnut...
...Harvard man, according to the Smith girls, is an "effete, supercilious, broad A, intellect," an a Yale man, says Radcliffe, is one of a group of "rah, rah boys who ask silly questions like this one." Dartmouth is, however, "good for weekends" (Winter Carnival stuff). Williams and Amherst are dismissed with even less courtesy than the Bruins...
Dangers, however, are inherent in the practice. If spring football practice becomes a compulsory matter, if it is looked upon by those who participate in it as a duty rather than a privilege, if the incentive becomes a desire for the rah-rah "die for dear old Rutgers" sort of glory characteristic of many colleges, rather than mere love of the game and a natural longing to excel in it, it is time to side with the Carnegie Foundation and condemn it as a pernicious institution...
David Harum (Fox) offers admirers of Will Rogers an opportunity to watch him whittling a fence-post, driving a sulky, singing ta-rah-rah-rah-boom-de-aye and swindling a clergyman. David Harum is a New England horse-trader and village banker. Part rascal, part philanthropist, he makes it his business to further a romance between his shy clerk (Kent Taylor) and his pretty protege (Evelyn Venable). He accomplishes his purpose by trading to her a horse named Cupid, suitable for sentimental buggy rides because he balks...
Fight for the vic-to-ry, rah! rah! rah...