Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON there was published a letter, signed Delcevare King 95, in which the writer deplores the singing of Yale songs when we are playing colleges other than Yale. He regrets the fact that "we have over and over again the some heavy un-Collegey cheer. Other colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly college students... We may not be able to win..." he concludes (after announcing that we are reputed to be "too dignified to have a peppy cheer"), "but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger measure...
...will also entertain chance visitors to Cambridge and serve to take their minds off the game. Then, if we lose, it will not matter so much; and the bystanders will go home feeling that the game was merely a side-show in the circus, and that the circus itself (Harvard) was rather a jolly and zestful and snappy and "College" place after all. Warwick Potter Scott...
...publications of European air-transport corporations show an advanced development of commercial aviation in the Old World, as complete information is provided for the air passengers, including books of elaborate photographic views along the air routes, and comprehensive time tables with connections to all parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Posters displayed by aviation corporations in France, Germany, and Russia, and sent to the Business School show that a keen competition exists in the air transportation business of Europe...
...merely in our band music and in a failure to form the letter and play the music of the opposing college that we show a lack of courtesy, but I feel also in singing Yale songs when we are playing Holy Cross, for instance, we are using a "high hat" procedure which is a grave discourtesy...
...wish too you would write a stirring editorial on our cheers. We have over and over again the same heavy un-Collegey cheer. "Yes, Harvard is too dignified to have a peppy cheer" I hear people say. Other Colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly College students and put more zest and snap in their cheering...