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Sirs: s-s-s-ss-sss-SSSS-B O O MU-Ah?! RAY! RAY! RAY! RAH-RAH RAH-RAH RAH-RAH RAH! HU-rah HU-rah HU-rah RAH I RAY! RAY! RAY! e-e-e-ee-eee-EEE- O W!! ! H. C. HINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

William Haines, who plays the title role, carries out Main street's idea of a wise-cracking rah, rah with a good deal of spirit and charm. If only such beings as the stage collegian existed, I could applaud his interpretation. Judge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

...fear lest subdivision at Harvard, if carried far enough to break the present rhythm of student life, would produce American small-college standardization. We should have college traditions legislated into being, disciplinary measures against freaks, an intensive rah-rah spirit. I am sure the thousands of Harvard graduates feel with me that liberty to make our own friends, do what we like, eat where we liked, and wear what we liked, was the most precious aspect of our College life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORISON, THREE YEARS AT OXFORD, OPPOSES COUNCIL PLAN FOR DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY INTO NUMEROUS SMALLER COLLEGES | 5/7/1926 | See Source »

...could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears and mush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLING PIGSKIN COMMON | 10/31/1925 | See Source »

Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPITAPH | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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