Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...subject of public and college "cheering," the New York Times takes occasion as follows to berate the colleges for their share in the evolution of the great American custom: "Whether Yale or Harvard was guilty of docking the "hurrah" of its first syllable, and making the syllables, "rah, rah, rah" do duty in the guise of "three cheers," it is now impossible to ascertain. The two colleges, however, seem jointly responsible for spreading a depraved taste for "rah" among other colleges and in setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have done much to expand...
Each college seems to vie with the others in its strivings after idiocy in compounding its private cheer. All of their cheers begin with the "rah, rah, rah," and are distinguished from one another by different additions. The students of Columbia repeat each letter of the name of their college, and seem to think they have done well in convincing those who hear their revolting cheet that they can spell at least one word correctly. The Williams students finish their cheer with the words "Willyums, yams, yums," and the students...
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...