Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers were elected: Russell Morgan, music supervisor of Cleveland, president; Max Krone, a Morgan assistant, vice president. A prize trip abroad was awarded to George E. Wahlstrom, supervisor of instrumental music of Ashtabula, O. A Resolution was passed to suggest to Congress to make "America the Beautiful"* the National anthem, instead of "The Star Spangled Banner," the words of which were voted too militant, the music too difficult for children to learn easily...
...Music by Samuel A. Ward, words by Katherine Lee Bates, late Professor of English at Wellesley College. At the Bandmasters' Convention held a fortnight ago in Middletown, Ohio, there were delegates who wanted Sousa's "Stars & Stripes Forever" for the National anthem. Their criticism of "The Star Spangled Banner" was that it came from an old English drinking song...
...name of this astonishing goddess? at once political and religious?is of course "Mother India." The political anthem and the religious chant of her devotees is Bande Mataram ("Hail Mother...
...face of 6,000,000 approving signatures, may I subscribe mine as opposed to the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem? Should not such a song bear the same relation to the nation that the alma mater song bears to the college? Viewed from this angle, could anyone imagine the inclusion in, say, Fair Harvard, of lines and allusions to a dramatic forward pass or touchdown in the Yale game of 1901? In just this way does the Star Spangled Banner, splendidly patriotic though it be, but manifestly a battle song, commemorate a specific event in a specific...
...sang all its four verses to prove that its words were not difficult, that its pitch was not too high. Proudly Captain Walter I. Joyce of the Veterans of Foreign Wars dumped before the Committee a great bale of documents which he said contained 6,020.000 signatures petitioning the anthem's official adoption. Said he: "I stood on San Juan Hill in '98 and heard four bands play that tune. All around me in pup tents men were lying sick with fever but when they heard that glorious old tune, every last man somehow got to his feet...