Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college for the first time come suddenly into a great legacy of responsibility. They are, for the period of their stay at college, their own masters in many respects. Not they are too often victims of the illusion that all one learns at college are the "three R's", Rah, Rah, and Rah. The unfortunate illusion grases in many pastures. Its richest fields are parenthood careless of the ways of youth and press careful of vice and sensation...
Harvard men have done away with all the ostensible mass manifestations of Rah, for such commotions have no place in a metropolitan community. A few ardent spirits warm to their illusion once in a while and make a few bows to Rah but they cease even to be funny when unwilling onlookers or passers by are involved. Even hazing long since has been given a one way ticket to somewhere. And the whole Harvard community seems the better for its absence. Jokes are jokes and horseplay is horseplay as long as the jokers and horses are gentlemen...
Another factor in the new attitude has been the sweeping undergraduate reaction which has followed on the heels of the "rah-rah collegiatism" produced in the middle of the post-war decade. Because sentimentalists and publicists seized and exploited the traditional forms of sportsmanship, it too has been driven to cover by the current wave of disgust at all the lack of restraint that the word "Collegiate" now implies...
...article, headed by the title. "Now The Rah Rahs" and following Boston Society notes, divides the "debutante sons" into four groups, the "A's", "B's", "C's", and "And theZ." Although a few indiscriminate residents of cities far removed from the Hub are thrown in, without any particular explanation, the large numbers of social celebrities who live beyond the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument are omitted. Naturally, as in the expose of conditions within the debutante ranks, the comments accompanying each name are more sensational than the actual grading...
...Rah! Rah!" of college days has turned to a hearty "Haw-haw!" among a certain group of Milwaukeeans. They are the boys who once were the Crimson and relished nothing so much as seeing the Blue dragged in the dust. Their laugh--well, you know it isn't a tender...