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"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]
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.
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
"Fair Harvard" is the alma mater of Harvard University. Written by the Reverend Samuel Gilman of the class of 1811 for the university's 200th anniversary in 1836, it bids the school an affectionate farewell. Of its four verses, the first and fourth are traditionally sung and the second and third omitted.
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.
and "The Cavalier Song" won a 1923 contest sponsored by the student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, and were named the university's alma mater song and fight song, respectively — but they failed to gain traction and remain relatively unknown among the general student body unless they try again to make it known by gaining traction again. [4]
"Old Nassau" has been Princeton University's alma mater (school song) since 1859. Harlan Page Peck was the lyricist and Carl A. Langlotz (sometimes Karl Langlotz) [1] was the composer. The lyrics were changed in 1987 to address sexism at the newly co-educational institution.
In 2008, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, LTG Franklin L. Hagenbeck, ordered a change to the lyrics of The Corps and the Alma Mater.The change was to remove gender-specific language in the songs, which were written when the Academy only admitted male cadets.