Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dangers, however, are inherent in the practice. If spring football practice becomes a compulsory matter, if it is looked upon by those who participate in it as a duty rather than a privilege, if the incentive becomes a desire for the rah-rah "die for dear old Rutgers" sort of glory characteristic of many colleges, rather than mere love of the game and a natural longing to excel in it, it is time to side with the Carnegie Foundation and condemn it as a pernicious institution...
David Harum (Fox) offers admirers of Will Rogers an opportunity to watch him whittling a fence-post, driving a sulky, singing ta-rah-rah-rah-boom-de-aye and swindling a clergyman. David Harum is a New England horse-trader and village banker. Part rascal, part philanthropist, he makes it his business to further a romance between his shy clerk (Kent Taylor) and his pretty protege (Evelyn Venable). He accomplishes his purpose by trading to her a horse named Cupid, suitable for sentimental buggy rides because he balks...
...Revere alumnus, we resent that. The stirring strains of the school song are still ringing in our ears: "Fight for Revere, boys, Revere will win. Fight to the finish, never give in. rah-rah-rah...
Fight for the vic-to-ry, rah! rah! rah...
...Yale News reporter cornered Big Bill Tilden last week and asked him for an interview. Mr. Tilden must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This...