Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday the bureau was termed "rah, rah," by the dean of records, who did not want his name to be used. He refused the students permission to use their rooms as offices for the business since Harvard buildings are tax-free, and business men in the Square are apt to object if business is transacted in rooms which are not taxable. Permission to name the budding girl-securing business the Harvard Date Bureau was also refused by the same dean...
...darned if she wanted to live a campus life on any rah rah girls' campus. Radcliffe can listen to lectures by some of the world's leading scholars. Radcliffe has a University atmosphere and is near an important cultural city...
...other hand there exist at Harvard none of the special caps or paraphernalia which are used to distinguish Freshmen at some institutions of learning. Harvard as the Freshmen will soon find, is the very antithesis of the "collegiatism" and rah-rah which in the minds of Harvard men seem to be associated with the term "middle-western...
...received the deanship, a job from which many another institution has vainly tried to pry him. Once he was actually elected president of the University of Wisconsin. On the wintry night he turned it down, 700 Law School students crowded around his house to cheer: "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Pound, Pound, POUND." Twice married but childless, fatherly Dean Pound has helped many a student through social and financial troubles. Roscoe Pound's day begins at 6:30 a. m., ends at midnight. Often he spends most of it inside his walnut...
...Harvard man, according to the Smith girls, is an "effete, supercilious, broad A, intellect," an a Yale man, says Radcliffe, is one of a group of "rah, rah boys who ask silly questions like this one." Dartmouth is, however, "good for weekends" (Winter Carnival stuff). Williams and Amherst are dismissed with even less courtesy than the Bruins...