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...back in 1895--to experience the "rebirth of the College spirit," or to "pledge their loyalty to the College." They listen to a few speeches, and applaud telegrams which have been sent by Dartmouth clubs which meet simultaneously all over the nation in a sort of mystical unity; they cheer a bit and sing "Dartmouth Undying" or "Men of Dartmouth"; then perhaps they go straight to bed like the adolescent who has just been converted in a camp meeting...
...night last week 5,000 California students gathered on the campus, waved torches and placards, marched behind a band and cheer leaders to President Sproul's square old mansion: "We want Sproul!" they chanted. Soon, with his arms around his wife and his mother, President Sproul appeared on a second-floor balcony...
...Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam. . . ." ("I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope.") There was a cheer. He continued, spacing his words dramatically: "Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum meum. . . ." ("My most eminent and most reverend lord. . . .") "Dominum Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor...
...league baseball, fans wait to see who is pitching before they lay their bets. With symphony orchestras, the man whom fans either cheer or boo is the conductor. Arturo Toscanini having finished 16 innings with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, a comparative rookie named Hans Wilhelm Steinberg stepped into the box last week, while veteran Bruno Walter sat by in the dugout, ready for action...
...cheer up the soldiers, hundreds of geishas, storytellers, wrestlers, chorus girls, magicians, actors and prostitutes have traveled the long weary miles from Japan to the China front during the past 18 months. The same route has been crossed by other hundreds of newspaper men, photographers, lecturers, poets, painters, cartoonists, novelists, composers and lyric writers, for few campaigns in history have ever been so painstakingly reported to a home population as Japan's war in China...