Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Percy Marks's searching study of contemporary life in a co-ed college has been turned by the cinema into the most tiresome kind of rah-rah worthlessness. The freshman loses more and more morals up to his junior year. The next year amid stupendous glory he wins the football game for dear old Prescott. Only the amusing and facile acting of Clara Bow rescues the picture from the limbo of the impossible...
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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...
...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...
...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...