Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pull no more; then the experimenter encourages him by suddenly crying in his ear: "Pull! Pull!" And lo and behold, in the fire of his aroused self, the subject can and does pull! All of which serves to illustrate the importance of mass meetings before, and a wild cheering section during, a game. Enthusiasm can "egg on" a strong fighting team to work wonders. Pennsylvanian...
...same field. Four successive victories have inspired an unshakable confidence in the ability of the Harvard team to win, and there only remains the danger that this feeling will develop into one of overconfidence, which is the first and longest step on the road to defeat. An overconfident cheering section is the worst enemy of its own team. Harvard is determined to win, but it must be a victory obtained on her own merits and not because of any fancied inferiority of the opposing team...
...fighting spirit equally famed. The same fighting spirit that has animated Harvard's sons on the blood-stained battlefields of Europe must be shown on the football field and in the stands. The long roll of the Harvard cheer must convince the team that behind it is a cheering section determined to defeat Yale...
...train especially for undergraduates will be the Harvard Limited, which leaves the South Station Saturday in two sections at 8.15 and 8.20 o'clock. Neither section will stop at Back...
...disgraceful lack of such encouragement during the past season, and give the eleven the necessary confidence to insure a victory on Saturday. At the Brown game the unorganized cheering of the sailors from the Navy Yard was impressive and inspiring compared to the desultory efforts of the Harvard cheering section. One would have thought the undergraduates cared little whether the team representing their own university won or lost. Last Saturday's game might as well have been played in Kansas City, for the psychological advantage of playing in the Stadium was nil. There was no singing, and the few cheers...