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...Such cheering as has been given in the last two games on our own grounds is not such as should come from Yale men, and the sentiment of the whole college rises up against it. A good series of rah-rash at the right time is what all love to hear, but for the two sides to cheer at the same moment as though pitted against one another in a cheering combat seems to us even childish. Let all see to it in the future that there cannot be laid to their door the charge of injuring Yale's reputation...
...Association. Now, if these men had gone in together and had occupied one part of the hall, there might have been some hearty cheering to encourage their representatives, but as it was, the only applause they could give was clapping, which, at best, is not very inspiring, The rousing "Rah! rah! rah!" seems to be fast getting into disuse among the students, and it seems unfortunate, to say the least. There has been hardly any genuine cheering in the yard this term, and there is danger that it may become a lost art among...
...Bowdosn Orient, in a list of college cheers, credits Harvard with "Rah! Rah! Rah! S-e-e-t! Boom...
Yale must have a remarkable Glee Club this year. at their concert in Meriden, the News states that "Fatinitza" was received "with thunders of applause," while "George Washington" was rendered so ably that "the audience fairly went to pieces." Rah...
College cheers are very indicative of the distinctive types of character which each college produces. The esprit du corps of any college is easily measured by its cheer. The simple form and the full, uniform beat of the Harvard rah is significant of the dignity, unity and self-restraint of college life at the first American university. There is no custom handed down from the past that we can better afford to guard with jealous care than the Harvard cheer. The Williams cheer is, we admit, unfortunate and far from edifying. That of Dartmouth is decidedly ludicrous...