Word: yells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert called him "the old grad type ... a guard on the University of Michigan football team when he was in college ... an honest, well-intentioned, good-natured, slow-witted man who has never grown up. . . . Mr. Denby has, I suspect, an almost irresistible impulse to give the college yell...
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: "Two students of Keystone School, an experimental institution which Mrs. Pinchot has organized in Harrisburg, are credited with co-authorship of the following school yell...
...authors are Gifford Pinchot, Jr., and ' Steve' Stahlnecker, son of my secretary. The pupils, most of whom are between seven and nine years of age, practice the yell while on their way to and from school...
...should like to suggest that in the late games of the season, especially the Princeton and Yale games the cheer-leaders spread out so as to include everyone on the Harvard side of the field. Very nearly all the people on the Harvard side want to yell and sing for the team but are excluded by the grouping of cheer-leaders in front of the cheering section. If thirty thousand people are cheering for the team on Saturday instead of one section I think it would be a great help and would please every Harvard graduate present. ASA B. DAVIS...
Because of my intimate associations with Prof. Hart, visiting Harvard clubs over the country and attending his lectures, I feel that I too can clasp the hand of the Harvard man and join in the Harvard yell. My college yell, evolved amid the clang of the hammer, the buzz of the wheel, and the screech of the whistle has been Rah, Rah, Rah, Work...