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5.-OLD NASSAU-PRINCETON

Tune every heart and every voice
Bid every care withdraw,

Let all with one accord rejoice,
In praise of old Nassau.

Chorus: In praise of old Nassau, my boys,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Her sons will give, while they shall live,
Three cheers for old Nassau!

6. SANS SOUCI-COLUMBIA

One last toast ere we part!
Written on ev'ry heart,
This motto stay,

"Long may Columbia stand
Honored throughout the land,
Our Alma Mater grand,
Now and for aye!"'

7.-ALMA MATER-BROWN

Alma Mater, we hail thee with loyal devotion,
And bring to thine altar our off 'ring of praise.
Our hearts swell within us with joyful emotion,

As the name of Old Brown in loud chorus we raise.

The happiest moments of youth's fleeting hours,

We've passed 'neath the shade of these time-honor'd walls; And sorrows as transient as April's brief showers

Have clouded our life in Brunonia's halls.

8.-ON THE BANKS OF THE OLD RARITAN-RUTGERS

My father sent me to old Rutgers
And resolved that I should be a man,

And so I settled down

In that noisy college town

On the banks of the old Raritan.

Chorus: On the banks of the old Raritan, my boys,
Where old Rutgers evermore shall stand.

For has she not stood

Since the time of the flood,

On the banks of the Old Raritan?

9. THE DARTMOUTH SONG
Come fellows, let us raise a song,
And sing it loud and clear;
Our Alma Mater is our theme,
Old Dartmouth, loved and dear.

Dartmouth! Dartmouth!
Challenge thus we fling!
Dartmouth! Dartmouth!
Hear the echoes ring!

Thy honor shall be ever dear,
Old Dartmouth green without a peer,
As long as we can give a cheer,
For Dartmouth! Wah-hoe-wah!

10.-HAMPDEN-SIDNEY SONG

Here's to old Hampden-Sidney, the garnet and the gray,
And the team of tried heroes who defend her name today,
And to old Alma Mater, we'll e'er be true to thee,

For we'll spread with song and story, the fame of H. S. C.

When the group is completed a color guard with the Stars and Stripes forms the center of the tableau and the pageant closes with the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner," the audience joining in the singing.

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses ?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:

'Tis the star spangled banner; oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave;

And the star spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and wild war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must when our cause is so just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust!''
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

RECEPTION BY MR. JAMES NEILSON

"Woodlawn," 4:00 to 6:00 P. M.

Immediately following the Pageant Mr. James Neilson, a Trustee of the College and member of the class of 1866, tendered a reception in honor of the delegates, guests, Trustees, Faculty, and alumni at his residence, "Woodlawn," adjacent to the College Farm. It was largely attended and very enjoyable. Many members of the Pageant cast attended in the quaint costumes of earlier days, adding a touch of variety and picturesqueness. The heavy rain which had begun to fall interfered somewhat with the attendance and with the convenience of guests in arriving and departing.

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