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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1157.0. "Old Fight Songs and Alma Maters" by wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee (Wook like "Book" with a "W") Wed Sep 27 1995 00:15

That last bit I wrote about old fight songs made me wax nostalgic for a 
moment. The words to the fights song at Harvard are all so quaint in this 
day and age.

For example:

Yo, ho! The good ship Harvard
  Is goalward bound again.
All the crews are at the halyards.
  Give a cheer for Johnny Harvard's men!
Bright crimson at the forepeak
  Rides high above the foam
As we sweep through the deep blue.
  Harvard strikes home!

I'm not really sure why I started this topic. Maybe I'm just feeling 
melancholy.

Wook '83
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Name		DateLines
1157.1echoes of rugby trips away...AUSSIE::WHORLOWMy Cow is dead!Wed Sep 27 1995 18:2622
    G'day,
     We are the girls from Roedean
    
      ...
    Our headmistress's name is Jane,
     She only likes it now and again 
    
    and again and agai nand again and again
    but we are the girls from Roedean
    
    Our music teacher is a fool
    He's only got a teeny teeny...
    
    
    oh dear, better stop before I get banned..
    
    
    ;-)
    
    dj
1157.2Really.....!KERNEL::MORRISWhich universe did you dial?Thu Sep 28 1995 02:374
    Hang on a minute;  my friend Nicholas Houghton _is_ the Director of
    Music at Roedean - you surely can't be refering to him?
    
    Jon
1157.3AUSSIE::WHORLOWMy Cow is dead!Thu Sep 28 1995 16:2622
    G'day,
    
    Actually the line should have read
    
    Our music teacher's name is Poole... 
    
    
    but it slipped my memory, so I improvised... 
    
    No reference to any character, living or dead is intended...
    
    other follow-up lines...
    
    WARNING -->next unseen for decorum maintenance
    
    nah - I couldn't do it.. it's rude..
    
    ;-)
    
    derek
1157.4Where rings out the classic bell...MAIL2::GOODMANI see you shiver with antici.........pation!Mon Oct 09 1995 12:0814
    Well, we didn't really have a "fight" song at Grinnell College (in
    Grinnell, Iowa), although the singing group had a couple of old songs
    that we sang.
    
    However, we had a few great cheers that we used now and again...
    
    Euripidies, Eumenidies, the Pelopennisian(sp?) war!
      X-squared, Y-squared, H-2-S-O-4!
    Come on gang, who're we rooting for?
      Who cares...
    
    Cheers (haha),
    
    Roy
1157.5EPS::RODERICKI saw Elvis kissing Santa Claus.Thu Dec 14 1995 11:369
    Northwestern University is well-known as an excellent business school
    with a losing football team (though this season they've set a school-
    record winning streak). Toward the end of their games as the inevitable
    approached, the students in the stands would cheer:

    	That's all right. That's OK.
    	You're gonna work for *us* someday.

    Lisa