Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-10-20
A COLLEGE YELL.
The Fearful and, Wonderful. Cry
Evolved ~ a Dozen Athletic
~ - Young Fellows. ~Es

eli! Hi, vi! Hi, vi, vi! Booma-
lacka, bow-wow! Hullabaloo! Van,
wah! Chick-a-go-runk! go-runk!. Siss
boom 'rah! Hey-ip! hey-ip! Siccum!
'Rah-zoo! Wah-hoo! Bang! Ki-yi,
Hobble-gobble, razzle-dazzle! Breke-
kek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax! Skookum, shook
UNI"
This marvellous language was not the
small talk of the debating society of an
insane asylum, nor was it a kennel of
mad dogs broken loose, It was the
joint efforts Of - solemn young gen
tIemen to decide upon club yell. Each
man had his own howl, and insisted on
singing out with it while all the rest
were rehearsing their own: It is re-
ported that when this grand combina-
ton broke loose all the small boys in
town thought circus was coming
along with its calliope (Which, of
course, they pronounced '''callie-ope'D,
while, the. two small policemen that pre-
tended to protect the town Of Lakerim
are reported to have thought that
gang of outlaws was attacking the
place. and to- have craWled into the
deepest ditch. in town, and pulled the
ditch in,after them = !. ~"
After every one had yelled himself
hoarse, each. of the - began. yelling
again to quiet the others, and the noise
was almost greater than before. At
length, however, they quieted : down
enough to- listen to the various :candi-
dates for. the. yell. History proposed a
long Latin q quotation, and insisted on
at least having some big words in the
yell. He and Boobies. joined forces,
and conlpromisedro ON the following
gem: :" TX
"Doodle-um! Diddle-um! Dandle-um!
The duodecimal Dozen" .~..4.y:..~
4 Punk, however, said that this was be-
Meath the dignity Of such; great men,
and proposed one which he persuaded
them to try over. 1t; could hardly be
called short, but it was certainly COM
pletc, and consisted not only in spell
surrounding this with most of the we'll
known yells of all the colleges. 1t went
something like this:
'':Brel1e- kek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax! Siss
boom 'rah! HULA baloo, ha! Lake
rim Athletic Club! 'Rah, 'rah,
'rah! 'Rah, 'rah. 'rah!, 'Rah, 'rah, 'rah!'
The dozen started vigorously to yell
this out, and kept together fairly well
until they came to the spelling of the
long name, but there they began to
fall by the wayside; they dropped to
the ground, exhausted, one by one, so
fast that by the time they reached the
last "Rah!' only. one man survived, and
that was the along-winged Punk. and
even he gasped it out like a sick rooster.
After this they all sat still on the
ground where they had fallen, and
thought hard for some time, and de-
bated in whispers. The result of this
debate was the final selection of brisk
yell that left some breath in the body
of the yellers, though it threatened to
break all the windows for miles
around. The word "Lakerim" was
given three times, with long and a
short i, and the yell went out in a
burst of glory, all the voices keeping
= together until halfway through the last
long "Hoo!" when the boys divided and
took different vowels. This gave the
yell blood-curdling sound that re-
minded B. J. of the tribes of Indians
he had never seen.-Rupert Hughes, in
st. Nicholas.