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A school song, alma mater, [1] school hymn or school anthem is the patronal song of a school. ... Bishop's College School — And did those feet in ancient time ...
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.
College songs, including alma maters and fight songs, of Colleges and Universities in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Songs about school have probably been composed and sung by students for as long as there have been schools. Examples of such literature can be found dating back to Medieval England. [ 1 ] The number of popular songs dealing with school as a subject has continued to increase with the development of youth subculture starting in the 1950s and 1960s.
Fuller quickly prepared the song as a school hymn for the college's Glee Club, an all-male choral ensemble, before a performance in Metuchen, New Jersey. Fuller chose to set the lyrics to the tune of melody, "On the Banks of the Old Dundee", a popular Scottish melody regarded as a drinking song, and titled the song for the Raritan River.
View of Cayuga Lake from Cornell University "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" is Cornell University's alma mater.The lyrics were written circa 1870 by roommates Archibald Croswell Weeks (Class of 1872), and Wilmot Moses Smith (Class of 1874), and set to the tune of "Annie Lisle", a popular 1857 ballad by H. S. Thompson about a heroine dying of tuberculosis.
The Maine Stein Song is the school song of the University of Maine. Its lyrics were written by UMaine student Lincoln Colcord in 1904 and its tune was based on Opie, a march written by E. A. Fenstad. It was popularized in 1930 by Rudy Vallée and became the only college song to become a number one hit.
"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.