Word: rinehart
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...more than 50 years, usually on a warm spring night, Harvard Yard has echoed with the familiar cry. "Oh, Rinehart!" It is the summons which brings students tumbling out of their rooms, whips them up to water fights, raids, and occasionally riots. It is Harvard's great rebel yell, but just how it first got started, few Harvardmen ever knew...
Gashes, burns, shaved heads, and ominous decanal warnings were common on at least two eastern campuses this week. Although Yardlings here have yet to gather to the cry of "Rinehart", at Princeton and Brown the freshmen are rioting already...
Apart from the Yard, which has mothered a majority of the Rinehart disturbances, Grand Central Station was at one time affiliated with the cry, and one Yale-game day a riot broke out in the Taft Hotel in New Haven when a certain Mr. Rinehart was paged by a bellboy...
...most severe of recent Rinehart riots was in 1950, in the first day, of the spring exam period, when a freshman called up to a room in Stoughton Hall occupied by Nicholas Reinhardt, '53. The call was audible enough to produce a chorus of response, and the riot...
Last spring, as in the past, University Hall decreed the death of further rioting at the University. Perhaps the requiem to John B. G. Rinehart will be a quiet one, as is fitting, but the myth of the pathetic student calling to himself, incorrect as it is, will probably endure as long as the University itself...