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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spirit at Sarah Lawrence, in the sense of "rah-rah Joe College," is willfully missing from the campus: as one girl put it, "there's little too little spirit." But the Sarah Lawrence student is interested and enthusiastic about her college and the life she leads there. There's spirit at Sarah Lawrence, all right, but it's not displayed with beanies and sorority songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Informality, Activity Enliven Campus... | 4/17/1952 | See Source »

...Rah, Rah, Kant! Adler gave regular pep talks to the staff. As they tackled each new idea, he would point out mistakes, make suggestions, urge them to hit that line. Sample: "Aristotle and Aquinas are doing fine, but Kant, Descartes, Plotinus, etc. must catch up ... Under Topic 2b, I find only three references to Aristotle, and three to Locke. This cannot be all!! Something has got to be done about this . . . We cannot rest on such a random collection with such a major topic. I am sure I am right. Don't give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fusilier | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...traditions go farther than this, too. They give Princeton its best and its worst qualities--the best, a feeling of good fellowship, friendliness and unity; the worst, a rah-rah chauvinistic attitude about itself and its accomplishments...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Generations Of Princetonians Love Tradition | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...matter how foolish the attempt to maintain the status quo may be, I would like to prolong that segment of it known as Harvard University as long as possible in its independent position. No matter how dearly beloved the old College football team (rah, rah) may be to the hearts of alumni, if that group is unable to support its emotional indulgences, students currently enrolled should not be expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save What's Left | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

...Fisher adds: "Despite any. . . reservations that have prevented me from becoming a rah-rah boy of the Freudian school, I am quite sure that the contributions of Sigmund Freud toward the advancement of psychotherapy far outweigh the contributions of any other ten men I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Man Who Knew Freud | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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