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Every man in the University be at the boat house this afternoon at 5 o'clock to cheer the crew before their last row. J. A. BURGESS. C. B. MARSHALL. W. CLARKSON. E. C. RUST...
...ever participated in any public athletic contest will deny that spontaneous applause for a good performance is an encouraging and inspiring evidence of sympathy. The most efficient cheer in the world is the sudden hush followed by the outburst which follows a really good play. To enable a large crowd to express its sympathy a certain amount of organization may be necessary, but in my opinion the good effect of organized cheering is greatly exaggerated. If there is to be organized cheering there are one or two essentials. In the first place there must be dash, enthusiasm, and speed...
...reply to your request for an expression of opinion on the subject of applause at games, let me say that my answer to the question whether to cheer or not to cheer would be in the affirmative. The difficulty in the matter seems to me to be not so much with reference to the existence of applause, as to the kind of applause and its application. The elaborate system of cheering which is now carried to its logical conclusion by the complete division of the rival camps of spectators into consecutive or continuous vocal bands, is only one illustration...
...Seniors present the class colors to the Freshmen, after having given the class cheer for 1907. The Freshmen respond...
...Seniors cheer President Eliot and then Harvard, the latter to be taken up by each class and the graduates in succession...