University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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A L U llif N I KTIM class 45190171 Uf 1901 611' fha Ui1,izfc1'.r1'ly of Chicago had im Late we bring to you our tribute, Gathered from a scattered host But we bear that which has lasttd Longer than a senior's boast. Longer than a moment's outburst, Longer than a wine-sprung tcast, Alma Mater, this we bring you, Wfhich has lived and grown with years, VVhich has stood through shock and buffet, Lonely wars and common tears. lt is little when we place it Side by side with freshman dreams, Pack beneath the class-day's sunshine Faded, worn and shrunken seems, But we cherish every atom And the dullest gives us gleams- Gives us gleams and random glances At the good old careless ways, Mingles laurel with the ivy Twinmg 'round our royal days. Princess-sporting in a kingdom That was seagirt from distress. Knowing' that each breaking wave would Leave our island less and less Till each one at last must launch his Craft of work and hope: f'The Guess - Princes were ive. O'er our kingdom Wfash the waves whereon we sail, But we meet at times and then we Tell again our kingclom's tale. Then, to top the clustered riggings Fly the pennants of maroon, Then across the harbor waters Floats a long familiar tune, Then the daydiglit lifts the anchors Ot the long ago too soon. Then we see upon the faces Circled 'round us what shall live and its teaching that it shall give. Of our kingdom And the stamp you our tribute, a scattered host. which has lasted senior's boast, moment's outburst. a wine-sprung toast, we bring you: That your sons shall be men free. They shall rule and shall not be ruled By the storms that sweep the sea. Late we bring to Gathered from But we bear that Longer than Longer than a Longer than O Chicago, this E1 -DONALD R. RICHBERG, 'Ol 33 Hass poem.

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A L U JV! N I f UDB Zllma IIDSUCI' The original text of the Alma Mater music is credited to F. N. Mandeville, of Syracuse, N. Y., who bears my name, but is not a relation. Frederick Eastman intro- duced it to our Glee Club in 1893-4 and for live years. the Alma Mater was sung only by the men. It was written for male voices and was not well adapted for general use. During 1908 we attempted several times to sing the Alma Mater in chapel. One morning, after the women had been straining at the high tenor parts. Dr. Harper put it up to the choir to arrange the music so the co-eds could sing. It fell to me to transpose the parts and I also rewrote the harmony and submitted it to my friend, Arne Oldberg, now for sometime director of music at the Northwestern University, for correction. He made some changes in the hfth and sixth lines, relieving the mon- otony of a composition rather monotonous at best. It is of interest to note that like very many of the first things we did at the university, the initiative for this work sprung from Dr. Harper. Like our n.ational anthem also, the music was borrowed and was not originally composed for the Uni- versity of Chicago. I had the arrangement copyrighted to preserve, so far as possible, its use for our University and the plates were turned over to the University Press, with permission to use the copyright for the benefit of the university. Dr. Harper had the Press strike off some copies for use in chapel exercises and the following week, the now familiar song was sung by all. if , f77 Ctbicago, Ctbicago, Glbicago, CBO - In response to your request for the original manuscript of the Chicago yell, I beg to say that I have not the original manuscript in my possession, as I believe, it was written on the back of an old envelope which I had in my pocket at the time. The facts in the case are as follows: On Saturday, October 1, 1892, the first chapel service was held in Cobb Hall, and at that time a call was made for a mass meeting of students in Cobb Lecture Hall for the same afternoon. About forty people were present at the meeting. Mr. Stagg presided and stated the object of the meeting, and requested the assistance of Jesse D. Burks, now of Philadelphia, and as the different yells were submitted, Burke wrote them on'fhe blackboard and acted as precentor while they were tried out, I had prepared perhaps half a dozen different yells. These were in due course presented along with some fifteen or twenty others, which were submitted by the members of the student body and faculty present. There seemed to be some- thing lacking in practically every yell advanced, and the one finally adopted by the meeting and which is now in use, was suggested to me by one of the others submitted. lt was not .at all one of the yells which I had originally prepared but was one that was inspired by the occasion and by a yell that had been submitted by someone else, I do not now know who. The yell as adopted at that meeting, was slightly different from what it afterward became in practice. The hrst line of the origin.al instead of -being Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Go. as now given, was as follows: - Chicago, Chicago, Go, Go. Go, and it was so adopted. Some weeks later in listening to the yell. at a football game I noticed that it had been transformed into its present shape, which is a little more mellihuous than it was as originally presented and adopted. I am sure l cannot tell who was responsible for the change. Y X11 Q 35