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Still laughing, she went from one to another of her family with words of careless farewell, and finally rah the gauntlet of her well-wishers to the waiting carriage, into which she dived without ceremony to avoid the hail of rice that pursued her. Her husband followed her closely, and they were off almost before he took his seat beside her. "Thank goodness, that's over!" said Nan, with fervour.
His hair was very light and very smoothly brushed, his eyes blue and rather near-sighted, his complexion pink, with an obviously recent and superficial sunburn, and his clothes, from the white Panama to the broad-soled low shoes, of the latest cut and material. Instinctively I sought his fraternity pin. He looked as though he might say "Rah! Rah!" something or other. A camera completed his outfit.
Yet, apart from their coats of many colors, these young men were smartly dressed, and it was plain that they carried with them considerable of an estimate of their own importance. Their average age appeared to be about twenty-one years. "Rah, rah, rah!" rang the chorus again. Then one of the eight, moving in advance of The others, called back: "Fellows, what have we here?"
"Only awful when it's bad!" another voice said; and there was a cry, "He's getting ahead nicely! 'Rah for the next President! Give him a show!" "Sodden mind and body!" repeated Lee; "a-groveling on hands and knees in the pit of iniquity, and when I came out it left me what you see a broken man who, if he'd saved his soul, was too late to save his body.
The effect was instantaneous. Mistaking the big glass, which had been a burden to me all day, for some terrible new form of gun, the swordsmen uttered a wild yell of horror, and turned and fled, driving the unarmed mob before them, all adding their savage cries of dread. "Hoor-rah," shouted Barkins. "Now, boys, a Yankee tiger. Waggle the glass well, Gnat. All together. Hurrah rah rah rah rah!"
The football game was over and the college men had returned. They were everywhere, marching about in long files, chain-gang fashion, each file headed by a man beating upon a gong, or parading the sidewalks ten abreast, singing college songs or shouting their slogan. At every moment one heard the college yells answering each other from street corner to street corner, "Rah, rah, rah Rah, rah, rah!"
"The Rah&Rah boys couldn't make sense out of the records. No surprise. They called in an I-A crypt-analyst. He broke a complicated substitution cipher. When the stuff started making sense he pushed the panic button." "For something the Nathians wrote five hundred years ago?" Stetson's drooping eyelids lifted. There was a cold quality to his stare.
Do this in the sacred name of that freedom of which you have this day heard so much, and of that Christianity to which by the very stamp and seal of your college you are the avowed and sworn servants. Rah!
YALE!" quickly and sharply enunciated. Harvard boys cry, with long-drawn deep notes, "Rah! rah! rah! Rah! rah! rah! Rah! rah! rah! Cornell "Cornell I yell! yell! yell! Williams College "Rah! rah! rah! yums! yams! yums! WILLYUMS!" Trinity College "Rah! rah! rah! Trinity! Boom-rah! Boom-rah! Wesleyan College "Rah! rah! rah! rah! Wesleyan! Rah! rah! rah! rah!" Brown College "Rah, rah, rah, rah!
"DEAR FRANK, Hooray! Hurrah! Rah! "I have made the acquaintance of 'The Mysterious Stranger'! It happened by a queer sort of accident, which came pretty near relieving you of the duty of replying to this letter. I was out in my little boat, which carries a sail too big for her, as I know and ought to have remembered.
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