Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day Dublin's Dail took pity upon Housepainter Peadar Cearnaigh (Peter Kearney). Inflamed by the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Peadar Cearnaigh sat down and wrote the words of "The Soldier's Song." As the national anthem of the Irish Free State it brings him great honor. Lately he has demanded royalties for public performances. Royalties he did not receive, but last week the Dail voted him a grant...
...Composed by a Frenchman to words originally French it is the anthem not of Soviet Russia but, properly speaking, the World Communist Party. First verse (as sung in Russia today...
...most startling when in a gathering of all classes at the Pierson-Trumbull debate the piano struck up "Bright College Years" to hear painfully weak humming and mumbling and to see embarrassed glances at one's neighbor. This is increasingly true in every gathering at which the grand anthem of Yale is begun. Can't we out of respect to our traditions and past glories learn this simple tune and its significant words? Many do not even realize that the words "For God, for Country, and for Yale" originated here...
...Harvard and West Point bands will break the silence with the playing of one stanza of the national anthem and to complete the ceremony, Governor Ely will present the gifts of the Commonwealth to Harvard and West Point. These will probably be received by the respective drum-majors...
MANTER HALL ANTHEM...