Word: sloganeered
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...wish to call attention again to the proposal of several weeks ago, that Harvard should have some recognized University slogan as well as a cheer for use at games and in celebration of victory. The idea was, that all those who possess the gift of versification should endeavor to write a short song to be set to some familiar and stirring music, and should send the same to the CRIMSON to be submitted to a competent committee...
...communication of today seems to me to need but one criticism. The march he proposes for a University song is a difficult one to set to verse. It is true that it has the advantage of being distinctly Harvard, but it seems that something more suited for a slogan could be suggested, something simple and unique at the same time...
GENTLEMEN:- No Harvard man who has in recent years attended a Princeton game and heard Princeton's slogan of victory, "Palms of Victory, Crowns of Glory," etc., when the team gets ahead can have failed to be impressed, and to wish that we had a slogan. The special songs which are gotten up for the different games are all right, but it seems a pity that we have no slogan which can be used at any and all games. With a view to stimulating some one to produce a slogan which is really good, I venture to suggest...
...Cornell cheer which appeared originally in the Yale News and then in the CRIMSON. It says "It is needless to add that the writer does not know what the Cornell yell is. For his benefit we will say that "Cornell! I yell! yell yell! Cornell!" is the only recognised slogan of the students of the university...
...regret it, but Mr. Dwight's graphic description of the race leads us to the reluctant conclusion that he had been there himself. He then gives a truthful description of the homeward progress of the victorious crew, referring but slightly to the esoteric or Yalensian interpretation of the Cornell slogan. After a sad account of various athletic achievements, he turns at once to the horrors of intercollegiate contests; and begins by stating - rather mildly and briefly - the arguments in their favor...