THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1921

Laudes atque Carmina
(By W. B. Butler) legs at the feet of the patriarchal bard. hymn was written and placed before I Prior to 1914 the Glee club was on
Traditions link the past with thel And what an experiment that is for the enthusiastic Stanley, who striking solid traditional foundation. These
present. They are what the Alumnus dilating the external cranial orifices! the A flat chord with eyes upon the were the days when the honor of a
recalls with as keen a sense of delight To what great stories of the past does words, the hymn felt, created a great berth on the Glee club was second to
and familiarity as the sentimentalist the present listen when the old-timer
who ponder over the trinkets bright orates about the "queer and curious" new song, born of an uncanny sudden- no other campus honor; when the
and broken. To him they are the of days gone by! Oh! Those were the ness that can be attributed only to a "making" of the "Varsity Midnight
morning glories that twine around the days of real sport. deep inspiration. "Laudes atque Car- Sons" was almost like winning an "M"
old back door. They are the present In 1859 the University of Michigan mina" was played as it stands written and when "making" the trip club
day spiritual heritage of the 1921 Glee Club was organized. Since col- and imperishable today, one of the every two years was the result of
Michigan student. We can define tra- lege songs are an organic part of greatest college hymns. Take up the sheer stick-to-it-iveness.
dition only as "something there," an- traditions, this was nothing but a old '88 Yellow and Blue song books But what about 1914? That year
omnipotent omnipresence hoarded up recognition of an inheritance from and the later dark blue covered one, witnessed the arrival of a new direct-
in the past-something immortal, the European pater-universitas. The and see who has given much to Michi- or, and the Glee club's palmiest days
self-propogatory and subject to little chant and song of the tribal praise- gan tradition. They are Frieze, Gay- were ushered in. The Glee club rose
revision. Tho chance and change are this is the hymn to the Alma Mater. ley, Stanley, and Scott. What a heri- to the heights of perfect male-chorus
busy ever and man decays and ages The greatest stimulus to college , ge we have! To whom are many singing-travelling 10,000 miles west
more, the Michigan spirit never wanes. song tradition was the advent of one, immediately dedicated? See the book's and back in two trips. What is the
The tradition-ave is boice on with! Albert Augustus Stanley, a brilliant footnotes: "Dedicated to the Universi- significance of that? Just this: that
the ever-changing student body as its young musician ready to be molded ty Glee Club." the spirit of Michigan was brought to
medium. As the medium deviates ini into the Michigan spirit. Thirty years I They were written for singing-who thousands of alumni who had held
type from the past as time writes its ago in a small upper room on State shall sing and propagate? For the only dim hopes of ever again being
changes, it must follow that tradition Street, three men met for a Sunday hearing is necessary to the apprecia- touched by the thrill of "The Victors."
is nicked by many but yet judicious afternoon relaxation. They were Pro- tion. Verily has the Glee Club taught In 1916 at Tacoma, Carl Johnson heard
interpretations. We cannot live in the fessor Frieze, Prof. F. N. Scott, and the student body to love its college of the real Michigan for the first time
past and who takes an interest in the Prof. A. A. Stanley, who decided that 'songs. Alas come the days of the -a factor in his coming here. Alumni
history of Michigan? Only occasion- the Alma Mater was worthy of greater damned, for who can sing now in in the secluded prairie and "bad-land"
ally does the lucky man sit with cross- praise. The following week a Latin Latin; what poet among us is inspired hamlets of the wooly west ran coat-
"by the sacred fires of knowledge?" less to the depot at the strains of "The
Who of them can equal F. N. Scott's Yellow and the Blue." In the past
"Goddess of the Inland Seas?" And, five years, the musical clubs have
where is another Louis Ebel "of thee brought Michigan spirit to every large
toast to Michigan" and "The Victors" city west of the Mississippi. They
calibre. See to whom this song was have travelled no less than twenty-
dedicated and by whom the original five thousands of miles, and the "loco-
was sung. Where are the Union Opera motive" has rung from the opera stage
* days of Monk Moore and Bill Diekema? of every principal alumnus center.
C A MNot a lasting song has been written, Even Gen. Jose Gonzoles Escobar of
since Konzaland's "College Days" and the Jaurez Federal garrison was pep-
Contrary Mary's "Friars Song." Yes ped up by the strains of "The Victors"
IS JUST AS NOURISHING AND DELICIOUS many a feeble attempt has been made, during the last club trip.
but they all have lacked the deep in- The club promoted collegiate spirit
DURING THE WINTER MONTHS AS IT IS IN spiration of the others. (Continued on Page 8)

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