Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though "rah-rah-ism" is contemptuously viewed as a thing of the past at Yale, we must take caution lest we completely strip from our college life something of the past that is still vital and of value. We point with pride to the passage of mushy sentimentalism, yet there are very few of us who do not feel the same loyalty to Yale that our fathers and predecessors felt...
...other hand there exist at Harvard none of the special caps or other paraphernalia which are used to distinguish Freshmen at some institutions of learning. Harvard, as the Freshman 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...
...they learned to sing in Latin, French and German, just as the music was written originally. They learned that good choral singing does not have to be exaggeratedly loud or soft, high or low. In 1919, to the distress of many an alumnus, they announced they were through with rah-rah songs. Financed by Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and Harvard alumni they took a European tour. Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky was so impressed that he invited them, with the Radcliffe Choral Society from across the Yard, to give choral works with the Boston Symphony...
...mass of reading matter on College Life in America there is little to be observed in New Haven to strengthen the validity of the usual assumptions. "Collegiatism" as popularly conceived is heartily despised. Old graduates bemoan the passing of something known as College Spirit, while the old-Ford-rah-rah-painted-slicker figure of collegiate mythology has not been replaced by that of the passionate scholar, a new figure has arisen, drawing its life from within the confines of York and College Streets, that, with allowances made for the evitable caricature resulting from generalities, may be fairly described...
...marked '94. Then he went back to his office- "probably to count the gate receipts," jibed one old footballer. Because he was a good Hoover friend and biographer and onetime Stanford cheer leader, Will Irwin was invited to the reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while the teammates rah-rahed mildly for Stanford. Then on the lawn the players crouched in their oldtime positions and, with "Bill" Harrelson calling the half-forgotten signals at quarter, went through several phantom formations. One drop-kick sailed over the hedge and Halfback Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of the First National Bank...