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Harvard men have a curious theory that loud and continual repetition of the name of their institution will excite their athletes to such a degree that nothing can withstand them. The Harvard cheer, therefore, consists of braying repetition of the word "Harvard," mixed with a stammer of rah-rahs. Wretched interference and a missed try for goal discredited cheer and theory in favor of a stout team from Holy Cross. Score: Holy Cross 7; Harvard...
...buoyed up by these words of cheer, I am fighting the good fight and essaying a comeback. This evening the clarion call will ring over Cambridge, "Joe Forecast has come back." I may even receive the new O-o-o Rah cheer (I hope...
...Rah! Rah! Rah! Here we are again! Bartlett's College Pharmacy...
...continuously by the trained antics of competitively selected cheer leaders. Instead of men who have won records of achievement on a half-dozen teams leading their classmates in a spontaneous burst of approval, the new plan provides for a quintet of expert dancers directing a trained chorus of "Rah-Rah-Boys". At least such is the ideal toward which the new plan tends...
...Harvard indifference" is what men have been pleased to call this lack of unity, and Harvard men have been proud of it, or have feigned their pride therein. They have rejoiced in the lack of "rah-rah stuff," in the lack of small-town collegiate performances such as prevail at the more isolated of the well-known universities. They have been superior to any sort of excitement. Nothing has ruffled them. They have not bothered to care...