Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial protesting Big Three Snobbery, terming baseball "a game that little boys can play," and calling for President John Sloan Dickey to resign from the Ivy League because of its high pressure athletic policies. The Indians' Green Key joined in, blasting the weekend as organized mid-Western "rah-rah collegiatism...
...gimmicks. Nor is it advancing in the University's tradition to goad spectators into cheering instead of booing and cheering as they wish. Re-emphasis of cheerleading will have no bearing on the present difficulties of our basketball team, but it may turn the College toward the reincarnation of "rah-rah" it has so fortunately shunned...
...Tiger. In Richmond, Ind., after seeing her first football game, three-year-old Candice Elias, daughter of the Richmond High School coach, devised a new bedtime prayer: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, Rah, Rah, Rah...
...interesting to note that the CRIMSON, which has editorially opposed the "Regatta Weekend" and its accompanying "rah-rahism," should have taken it upon itself to sponsor Pogoism. If we assume that "the social unsolidarity" of which the CRIMSON speaks is at least partially a good thing, then the growth of a movement, over three thousand strong, which sports Pogo buttons and chants "I go Pogo" on public occasions must be considered a dangerous phenomenon. The importance of Pogoism is not merely as another manifestation of the growth of mass "rah-rah"; it is possible that this movement may be dangerous...
...Rah-rah" exuberance is giving way to solemn purposefulness on the college campus, according to Robert Stein, editor and author, in a article on "How Wild Are College Students?" in the May issue of "U.S.A...