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Many famous alumni returned to Cambridge for the Tercentenary, but one who bids fair to have his name remembered longer by Harvard posterity than any other was John Brice Gordon Rinehart...
...modest little man from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, returning to Cambridge for the first time since he was graduated from Law School in 1903, Mr. Rinehart readily acknowledged that he was the original Rinehart, whose name has long since become the terror of Colonel Apted's loyal cohorts, a battle cry voiced by Yardling warriors in their first rabble and inebriated grads at Club dinners alike...
...spring of 1900," Mr. Rinehart declared when asked about the origin of this old tradition, "examinations were just over and the students were sitting around on the steps of the Yard dormitories, when the cry first became a fever. The atmosphere was tense, as it usually is between examinations and Commencement...
...Well, as soon as this friend called out 'Rinehart' at the top of his lungs and it had echoed throughout the Yard, the rest of the students picked it up, and within a few minutes the place was a bedlam. Most of the students did not even know who I was, but it caught like a fever and they were hanging out of the windows yelling 'Rinehart' at the top of their lungs. It was good exercise, and I didn't care, but the cry has stuck...
...FATHER-Charles Wertenbaker -Farrar & Rinehart...