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"It’s been so long since last we met, Lie down forever, lie down; Or have you any money to bet, Lie down forever, lie down."
"There goes old… Georgetown, Straight for a… touchdown, See how they… gain ground, Lie down forever, lie down, Lie down forever, lie down."
"Rah! Rah! Rah! Hurrah for Georgetown, Cheer for victory today. ‘Ere the sun has sunk to rest, In the cradle of the West, In the clouds will proudly float The Blue and Gray."
"We’ve heard those loyal fellows up at Yale Brag and boast about their Boola-Boola. We’ve heard the Navy yell; We’ve listened to Cornell; We’ve heard the sons of Harvard tell How Crimson lines could hold them. Choo Choo, Rah Rah, dear old Holy Cross; The proud old Princeton tiger Is never at a loss. But the yell of all the yells, The yell that wins the day, Is the “HOYA, HOYA SAXA!” For the dear old Blue and Gray."
"There goes old… Georgetown, Straight for a… rebound, See how they… gain ground, Lie down forever, lie down, Lie down forever, lie down."
"All in all, finals come and go with much less fanfare than Alex imagined. It's a week of cramming and presentations and the usual amount of all-nighters, and it's over. The whole college thing in general went by like that. He didn't really have the experiences everyone else has, always isolated by fame or harangued by security. He never got a stamp on his forehead on his twenty-first birthday at the Tombs, never jumped in Dahlgren Fountain. Sometimes it's like he barely went to Georgetown, merely powered through a series of lectures that happened to be in the same geographical area."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.