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...football, but what about the over-emphasis of Harvard's "Influence" which has apparently ruined what little college spirit we ever had? The lackadaisical attitude of the undergraduate body, whose support of the team this year has consisted in little else than occupying a seat in the so-called "cheering" section is enough to shame any Harvard man who has an ounce of sporting blood. We cheer only when we are personally excited by a good play, merely as an emotional outlet, and not with any idea of maintaining the morale of the team. We have become like a gambler...
...Jochanaan prisoner, where two dark cypress trees should have stood sinisterly against an Oriental sky. Jeritza and Jochanaan were conventionally clothed but if she had worn veils and he a hair- cloth tunic the performance could not have caused more excitement. The audience stayed long after the finish to cheer and cheer...
With the solemn blessings of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London bestowed upon it, and a happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...
...worked over his Indianapolis and New York stump speeches. One Cabinet meeting instead of two was held during the week and then with only half of the members present and all the discussion on campaign strategy. Most White House callers were G. O. Partisans with words of advice, good cheer or hope. Eva and Danny, two elephants borrowed from a Washington theatre, lumbered on to the White House lawn bearing a sign: "This is an elephant's job-No time for donkey business...
Saddest and strangest sight of the week was a hunger marchers' Women's Brigade whose cheer leader, Mrs. Harriet Paisley, is a 62-year-old Lancashire grandmother. Clattering along on thick-soled Lancashire clogs, these hard-faced women grimly entered and marched about London solemnly blowing rubber razzberries at well-dressed citizens, bobbies and Royal Horse Guards...