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...Revere alumnus, we resent that. The stirring strains of the school song are still ringing in our ears: "Fight for Revere, boys, Revere will win. Fight to the finish, never give in. rah-rah-rah...
...Yale News reporter cornered Big Bill Tilden last week and asked him for an interview. Mr. Tilden must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This...
...Though "rah-rah-ism" is contemptuously viewed as a thing of the past at Yale, we must take caution lest we completely strip from our college life something of the past that is still vital and of value. We point with pride to the passage of mushy sentimentalism, yet there are very few of us who do not feel the same loyalty to Yale that our fathers and predecessors felt...
...other hand there exist at Harvard none of the special caps or other paraphernalia which are used to distinguish Freshmen at some institutions of learning. Harvard, as the Freshman will soon find, is the very antithesis of the "collegiatism" and rah-rah which in the minds of Harvard men seem to be associated with the term "middle-western...
...they learned to sing in Latin, French and German, just as the music was written originally. They learned that good choral singing does not have to be exaggeratedly loud or soft, high or low. In 1919, to the distress of many an alumnus, they announced they were through with rah-rah songs. Financed by Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and Harvard alumni they took a European tour. Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky was so impressed that he invited them, with the Radcliffe Choral Society from across the Yard, to give choral works with the Boston Symphony...