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The Spirit of Aggieland is the alma mater of the Texas A&M University.It was originally written as a poem by Marvin H. Mimms while he was a student at Texas A&M. [1] Richard J. Dunn, the director of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band at the time, composed the music.
A clerihew (/ ˈ k l ɛr ɪ h j uː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
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 Corps" is a poetic hymn associated with the United States Military Academy.It is second in importance to only the Academy's Alma Mater.The words were written by West Point Chaplain, Bishop H.S. Shipman, around 1902.
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.
David Baker was born in Bangor, Maine in 1954, and was raised in Missouri.He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 1983.
McMillan was born in Darfield, South Yorkshire, son of John McMillan, a naval officer, and Olive Wood, a shop clerk.McMillan married on 21 July 1979. His son Andrew McMillan is a poet who won the Guardian First Book Award 2015 for his debut poetry book Physical.
Alma mater (Latin: alma mater; pl.: almae matres) is an allegorical Latin phrase meaning 'nourishing mother'. It personifies a school that a person has attended or graduated from. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term is related to alumnus , literally meaning 'nursling', which describes a school graduate.