Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1916 — COLLEGE SONGS THAT LIVE [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE SONGS THAT LIVE

Really Notable Pieces of Music That Are Connected With Universities of the United States. Every person who has seen a phalanx of Princeton students standing with heads uncovered and singing the sonorous and majestic college anthem has thought with regret of the death of Professor Langlotz, the writer of “Old Nassau.” Professor Langlotz was a man of real musical attainments; he had played under the direction--of Wagner, and he had written various oratorios and ambitious productions, yet this song, hurriedly composed, is far more widely known than anything else he wrote in his long career. Yale-and Harvard also have songs which" always bring the students to their feet and pull their hats from their heads. Brown has “Alma Mater,” written by a sophomore, one of the best college hymns. Amherst men stand uncovered when they sing, “To the Fairest,” the words and music written by a student of the class of 1903, and Williams has the oldest American college song written by an undergraduate. This 'undergraduate was the distinguished clergyman, Dr. Washington Gladden, a member of the class of 1859. who wrote “The Mountains” while teaching school during a winter vacation. Among New England schools, too, Tufts has two excellent songs, “Dear Alma Mater,” stately and fine, and “The Brown and Blue," more popular in character, the words of both written by Prof. David L. Maulsby. -——