Word: cheeringly
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...queer psychology, which the Student Council attributes to Harvard undergraduates. Admitting for the moment that their cheering has been thoroughly unsatisfactory, the Council evidently believes that they can be made to bellow hoarsely and continuously by the trained antics of competitively selected cheer leaders. Instead of men who have won records of achievement on a half-dozen teams leading their classmates in a spontaneous burst of approval, the new plan provides for a quintet of expert dancers directing a trained chorus of "Rah-Rah-Boys". At least such is the ideal toward which the new plan tends...
Rather than be led to strain throats at the bidding of men whom they will not respect, as they do the present cheer leaders, undergraduates will resent the stimulation of artificial enthusiasm. The Council must recognize that the spirit of undergraduate Harvard is not exactly like that of other institutions; and that therefore the methods of other institutions will not succeed here...
...Cheer leaders are henceforth to be selected on a competitive basis, it was decided at a recent meeting of the Student Council...
...committee of three undergraduates and one graduate, to be selected by the Council, shall start a competition immediately after college opens in the fall, and shall continue until after the first few games. Four men in the competition shall be appointed cheer leaders, on the approval of the Student Council. Next fall, however, five men shall be recommended for approval, one of whom shall be head cheer leader. Thereafter each June the head cheer leader, in conjunction with the committee, shall appoint his successor for the coming year, and this successor shall aid the committee in carrying on the competition...
...Give a cheer, then, gosh dang...