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In 1873, on the night of a performance in Metuchen, New Jersey, Colburn approached his fellow student Howard Newton Fuller (1853– ), to compose a tune and some lyrics that the club could use as an official school song, or alma mater. Fuller wrote the lyrics in two hours setting them to the tune of a popular melody On the Banks of the Old Dundee.
Ralph Johnson Bunche (/ b ʌ n tʃ / BUNCH; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel.
A school song, alma mater, [1] school hymn or school anthem is the patronal song of a school. In England , this tradition is particularly strong in public schools and grammar schools . Australia
The band returns to play the national anthem and the school's alma mater song, and that leads into "the most exciting 25 seconds in college football," the description of the run down The Hill ...
An Alma Mater song is an official or de facto song, anthem, or hymn of a school, college, or university. Pages in category "Alma mater songs" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Alma mater songs (42 P) C. College fight songs in the United States (22 C, 3 P) Pages in category "American college songs" The following 62 pages are in this category ...
"Far Above Cayuga's Waters" as printed in Songs of Cornell in 1906. This song is one of the better-known alma maters in the United States. It is the only alma mater song included in Ronald Herder's 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics. [1] In a novel, Betty Smith called it "the saddest and oldest of all college songs". [2]
The Gamecock reported in its March 1911 issue that very little progress had been made on the alma mater for the university despite a reward of $50 by the faculty. English professor, George A. Wauchope, took it upon himself and wrote the lyrics for the alma mater in 1911 set to the tune Flow Gently, Sweet Afton by Jonathan Spilman. Other songs ...