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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.
Most formal concerts of the Glee Club or Cornell Chorus conclude with selections of Cornell songs. The songs are also sung at football games and played by the marching band. The list is in chronological order and includes the first line of each song, as that is how many students identify the songs.
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Cornell University, an Ivy League university founded in 1865 in Ithaca, New York. This list of Cornell University alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Cornell University, an Ivy League university whose main campus is in Ithaca, New York. As of 2024, Cornell has over 250,000 living alumni. [1]
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Snoop Dogg performing during Slope Day in 2005. Slope Day is an annual day of celebration, held on the last full day of classes (usually the first Friday of May). Though Slope Day has gone through many reincarnations since its inception in 1901, in recent years focus has shifted to live musical performances open to the Cornell community and a select number of guests.
The Cornell University Glee Club (CUGC), founded in 1868, is the oldest student organization at Cornell University. The CUGC is a thirty-nine member chorus for tenor and bass voices, with repertoire including classical , folk , 20th-century music , and traditional Cornell songs .
The Cayuga's Waiters formed in 1949. The name is a play on Cornell's alma mater, "Far Above Cayuga's Waters".[1]:239 Although dressed in standard Glee Club attire (a tuxedo), they distinguished themselves from other Glee Club members by draping towels over their arms—a visual pun on their ensemble's name.