Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...
...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...