Word: spirited
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While Harvard’s first attempt at Homecoming afforded little incentive for current students to ever want to come back for this event, the HAA may be on to something. Just as the annual Night Game has provided an unmatched beacon of Harvard school spirit, a properly managed Homecoming might be able to similarly stimulate student sports culture...
...their Facebook statuses. I cannot claim more than a moderate interest in football as a sport, and I probably won’t fall apart if Harvard doesn’t win the Ivy League championship. But the great thing about school spirit is that it requires no rationale or justification. I deck myself out in Harvard gear and cheer loudly at games mainly because I feel it’s the appropriate thing to do at a school event—and because it?...
...this seems like a totally illogical line of thinking, it may be because the entire concept of "school pride" is inherently irrational. "Spirit" is a manifestation of camaraderie among individuals who may very well have nothing in common except for shared affiliation with a group, be it to a college, a House, or a class year. All too often I hear fellow Harvard students trying to treat spiritedness as if it needs a deeper explanation—"I think there would be so much more House spirit if housing was nonrandomized and I could live with people who shared...
...choose to, we can make all sorts of excuses for not having school spirit: We won’t have a big-name artist at our pep rally to be excited about, tailgate rules at Harvard are too puritanical, we’re too cynical to mindlessly demonstrate support for our school. Getting an outside performer for the pep rally or allowing kegs at tailgates may make those events more appealing, but it doesn’t create school spirit. Last year I could barely see Girl Talk during his abbreviated time onstage, and the frigid weather made it difficult...
Allowing student groups to perform at the pep rally in place of a big name performer is also a great way to showcase student talent. The Harvard focus of this more traditional format will help to foster more school spirit. CEB chair Kevin M. Mee ’10 has alluded to this: “I definitely think we would’ve moved in this direction, anyway, towards focusing back on the core focus of a pep rally, which was lost a little bit last year...