Three Times Three a Tiger?

[Dale Coye]

At the annual Princeton reunion, which from everything I have heard is the
mother-of-all reunions, there is an event called the P-rade which involves all
of the returning classes, beginning with the 25th, then the "Old Guard" (oldest
surviving class), and so on down to the most recent year, marching (well,
walking) along the main roads of the campus which are lined with the various
classes waiting their turns to fall into line.  Periodically "tigers" are given.
For example an enthusiast from the class of 1985 might be so overcome at the
sight of the advancing class of 1945, resplendent in their orange and black
coats, that he will turn to his classmates and begin this cheer (which the whole
class takes up) "Tiger-tiger- tiger-sis-sis-sis-boom-boom-boom-bah! 45! 45!
45!, then everyone cheers and drinks even greater quantities of beer. The rhythm
is 3 sets of triplets, without a pause, ending in the bah!   Princeton's
mascot is of course the tiger, and how long this particular cheer has been around
I don't know, but it is 3 times three with a bah at the end.

DF Coye
The College of NJ