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...Harvard men is in accordance with that which we have stated. The longer cheer certainly commends itself, not only by its distinctive character, but also because, when there is a large crowd, the slower time brings with it a massive strength that does not appear in the short, sharp yell of other colleges...
...Annual football game next Saturday (October 19, 1895), on Soldiers Field, Cambridge, at 3.30 p. m. Ask for tickets in Section G, which has been reserved for Brown men. Pass the word along to every Brown graduate, and ask him to attend prepared to yell for Old Brown, and so cheer on her boys in their efforts to put Brown to the front in athletics...
...Harvard cheer is unfortunately losing its distinctive character. In former years the nine "'rahs" came slowly, and the final "Har-vard" was broad and deep; in the Pennsylvania game the cheer could be but little distinguished from the short, sharp Yale yell. Even the "nine long Harvard's" which used to be so impressive are now cut much too short. The leaders of the cheering seldom try to maintain the old-time cadence, and there is danger that it will be entirely disused. The merest hint should surely be sufficient to check this tendency...
...done about appointing men to lead the cheering in the coming Harvard - Yale game. It seems a pity that the cheering should be so weak as it was at the Yale game last year, or should be left to the whims of the students to degenerate into one continuous yell as it did at the Princeton game. The plan of getting men, who know how to do it, to lead the cheering has been so successfully tried at the Springfield football games that there can be no doubt that it is what is needed for the baseball game. If Captain...
Lehigh has recently changed her college yell...