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Toike OikeToike Oike is the "Skule Yell" of Skule, the University of Toronto Engineering Society. Toike Oike! Toike Oike!
Ollum te Chollum te Chay!
Skule of Science, Skule of Science
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
We Are (we are!), We Are (we are!), We Are the Engineers!
We Can (we can!), We Can (we can!), Demolish Forty Beers!
Drink Rum (straight!) Drink Rum (straight!) And Come Along With Us,
For We Dont Give a Damn For Any Damn Man Who Dont Give a Damn For Us!
Yaaaay SKULE!! It is perhaps the oldest surviving tradition of Skule. The original four lines first came into use in 1897. At that time, there was a much stronger sense of spirit and rivalry among the different colleges and faculties at U of T. Each had their own distinctive cheer which they proudly used to proclaim their superiority at every possible occasion. The original Skule cheer was: Who are we? Cant you guess?
We are from the SPS
S-C-H-O-O-L!!
Both Skule and the rest of the University recognized it as an inadequate cheer. It was decided that the yell proposed by A. G. Piper was the best and thus was born the original four lines of "Toike Oike". The cheer was first performed at a Theatre Night, a major campus-wide event for all the faculties, held on Halloween. The last four lines of the yell are essentially the chorus of "Godiva", and were first used on November 25, 1905 during the procession from Rosedale Field to the King Edward Hotel following a victory of the University of Toronto Rugby team over the Ottawa Rough Riders. In the game, Casey Baldwin, a Skuleman, had made a spectacular play in the last minutes to win the dominion championship for the university. The phrase "Toike Oike" comes from an Irish janitor in the old Skulehouse named Graham. Whenever students were working late in the labs and he had to close up the building, he would tell them to "take a hike", which sounded like "toike oike" due to his Irish accent. Students of the day then used this as the original inspiration for the words of the cheer. The cheer is pronounced "Toy-kee-oyk". Today "Toike Oike" is also the name of the Engineering Society's newspaper. External Links
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