Less well known, however, is the “Rock Chalk” association with a series of men’s cooperative residences that dotted the Mount Oread environs during the mid-twentieth century. Forming the core of the stirring chant that Theodore Roosevelt once reputedly called “the greatest college cheer ever devised,” these two words have echoed in field houses and stadiums and, indeed, anywhere else KU partisans have ever gathered to exhibit their Jayhawk pride. Since the late-nineteenth century, the words “Rock Chalk” have been synonymous with the University of Kansas.
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