The curious ‘ ‘Rah! Rah 1 Rah 1 Sis I boom ah I Co-ex. Co-ex. 00-ex. Boom!” cries of tho American University students have been traced by a German savant. Dr Ernst von Debschutz, to ancient Rome and Byzantium. In the Senate, the circus, and when the emperor appeared in public, organised cheering by rival factions was frequent, declares the herr professor, and it much resembled the barbarous cheers of the American undergraduates.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 10
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