Eureka! I think otaheite apples are the fruit I fell in love with when we went to Jamaica when I was about 14. Boys were selling them by the side of the road and I kept getting my father to stop so I could have another one.
From memory:
On the city's western border
Reared against the sky
Proudly stands our alma mater
As the years roll by.
Forward ever be our watchword.
Conquer and prevail!
Hail to thee, our alma mater
Vanderbilt all hail!
Of course, it's no longer on the city's western border, but it was in 1873.
Happy birthday, MM!
I would have thought I knew my alma mater, but no. It is none of the regularly-sung songs.
You Americans have weird traditions. My school had no song. (If it did, it would have been some plainsong Latin thing -lots of High Anglican wooo going on there.)
I'm waiting for ita to come and tell me if we had one.
Wikipedia says there are several McGill songs:
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Clips here:
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IIRC, mine was,
A one! A two!
A helluva Hullabaloo!
A hullabaloo ray ray
A hullabaloo ray ray
Hooray! Hooray!
Rah rah tee-ay!
Tulane!
No idea.
And ASU is so rah-rah and Mike Love that that must have taken some conscious screening. I can say that "Community" is more accurate than one might think possible, so:
Go Human Beings!
oh hai garbage truk man. do u like mai flanel pjs and pink fuzy slippers? thx for takin mai trash even tho u'd gone by mai house and I had to run acros mai yard.
again, you all wish you were my neighbors. polka-dotted flannel pj bottoms, collegiate sweatshirt, pink fuzzy slippers, and because I had just been in the car dropping of mac, a pink bluetooth earpiece.
I do not remember my college alma mater, but I do remember the one from my grammer-high school. Possibly because it was silly and catchy:
Dear Livonia, Dear Livonia
Dear Livonia, bless her name
Whether in defeat or victory,
We are loyal, just the same
And we'll sing to
Dear Livonia
'tis for her we fight for fame!
And we'll shout her praises loud in every land!
Dear Livonia, bless her name!
This just seems so over the top for a country school with less than 100 people per graduating class.
