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In 2008, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, LTG Franklin L. Hagenbeck, ordered a change to the lyrics of The Corps and the Alma Mater.The change was to remove gender-specific language in the songs, which were written when the Academy only admitted male cadets.
"On, Brave Old Army Team" has been called a "classic fight song" by the Phoenix New Times, one of the "50 Greatest College Fight Songs of All Time" by Bleacher Report, one of the "12 best fight songs in college football" by the Buffalo News, and was listed as one of the "Top Twenty-Five College Fight Songs" by William Studwell in his book College Fight Songs II: A Supplementary Anthology.
It is sung in conjunction with Army's Alma Mater and Navy's Blue and Gold, when the teams combine to participate in the singing of both Academies' songs. The third verse is also traditionally sung by Academy cadets and graduates as an alma mater to honor the passing of a fellow cadet or graduate.
An Alma Mater song is an official or de facto song, anthem, or hymn of a school, college, or university. Pages in category "Alma mater songs" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
The band returns to play the national anthem and the school's alma mater song, and that leads into "the most exciting 25 seconds in college football," the description of the run down The Hill ...
Navy Blue and Gold" is the alma mater of the United States Naval Academy. It is traditionally sung at the end of gatherings of midshipmen and alumni, including Naval Academy pep rallies and sporting events at which a band is present.
The tune is used at the end of the 1989 film Shag for the alma mater song of Spartanburg High School. The tune is used as the melody for the alma mater song of Anarene High School in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show. The tune is quoted in Charles Ives' song "Old Home Day" and in his "Intercollegiate March" no. 5
View of Cayuga Lake from Cornell University "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" is Cornell University's alma mater.The lyrics were written circa 1870 by roommates Archibald Croswell Weeks (Class of 1872), and Wilmot Moses Smith (Class of 1874), and set to the tune of "Annie Lisle", a popular 1857 ballad by H. S. Thompson about a heroine dying of tuberculosis.