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There has been a leak somewhere. The dreadful secret of what really happened when the Law School gathered to cheer Dean Pound is now emblazoned on the pages of "Time", Encouraged, or maybe goaded; by this exposure, a law student suggests that the following advertisement be run in the next issue of the Harvard Law Review...
WANTED Experienced cheer leader to teach the Law School how many Harvards belong on a "regular" cheer, and exactly when to stop the "Rahs". At the mass meeting at Langdell Hall several days ago there was considerable difference of opinion on these minor points...
...magazine, in its description of the demonstration at the Law School following the election of Dean Roscoe Pound to the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin, Harvard law students wear ear-tabs when it is cold: Harvard law students are "worried and weasel-faced"; Harvard law students when they cheer, say "Yeah...
...another bellower cupped his hands, vociferated: "Long cheer for Pound!" A tense arm ticked off three hips; through the bleak air, refracted by the wall of Langdell Hall, came from 700 leather throats a stupendous roar?Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, with nine POUNDS on the end. The Dean did not appear. Reluctantly, in little groups, the 700 went away...
...tradition. Such a structure, honored in the past and haloed in the present, cannot fail to found a legendary cycle. Ghosts may creak its boards, vague shapes may flit from rafter to rafter, the vast silence of its dimness will overawe the intruder. The spirit of good cheer is abandoning its Bacchic board, but the void may yet be filled by the angel of venerability and contemplation which hovers about the acquiescent majesty of deserted grandeur...