The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-14
COLLEGE SONGS.
What Kansas Students Use for
Enthusiasm Vents.
One Of the Best Is Claimed by
State Normal.
WASHBURN DOES WE'LL
Their Song Belongs ExcIusiYlye
to Them.
Kansas University Has a Brand
New One.

Several Kansas colleges have had
glee clubs which have made the well
kin ring in many towns of the state and
following are some of the songs that
are handed down. from class to class,
and from glee club to glee club in the
Kansas colleges.
Probably the most stirE5ng and typi-
cally Kansas song of all was written by
State Normal at Emporia for many
years. That a man as old as President
Taylor can grasp or maintain the spirit
and dash that the heart of the college
man loves is proven by his song. 1t
has not a staid. somber tune nor a clas-
steal verse. 1t is rousing. The tune
used is A Hot Time" which is almost
q national air. The verses by President
Taylor are as follows;
THE JAYHAWKER's SONG.
I'm Jayhawker boy from the Jayhawxer
I wear JaiyhawIzer hats on a Jayhawlzer
I ride Jayhawker horse in a Jayhawker
In the Jayhawker state am bound for
10 stay CHORUS
Don't you hear the voices from the west.
The bells that ring, the song that we love
It tells Of life in a free and happy plain.
And of a warm heart at the old home
tonight.
Hear i'll hear it! so strong and so clear.
The bells they ring and the wild prairies
For the Jayhawler boys and the Jay
All ma a warm heart in the old home
tonight.
I've a Jayhawker girl with Jayhawker
She wears Jayhawker flowers with Jay
hawSer grace;
She sings JaShawker songs with Jay
And the Jayhawker state is her own free
choice
Oh, the Jayhawlzer skies and the Jay
Are the Jayhawker's pride and the Jay
For the Jayhawker knows that the Jay
hawker's pains
haWkers grains
So the Jayhawker sows and the Jayhawker
And the Jayhawler sings and the Jay
haWker sleeps.
While the JayhaW lxer's steers and the Jay
GROW. into Jayhawixer's gold. into Jay
hawker's notes.
Neither Jayhawker winds nor Jayhawker
drouth
For the the Jayhawker's faith and the Jay
hawker's song
Are the Jayhawker's life in his Jayhawzar
home
Washburn has a song, not so spirited
as the Normal tune but full of patriots
ism. No one knows exactly what tune
is used but the first thing a student
/ learns, almost, after he matrieulates and
/ becomes a son Of Ichabod, is the col
1ege song. The words were written
some ten years ago by Miss Frances
Storrs as follows:
WASHBURN SONG.
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A song of our breezes strong:
A song Of our pride. the true and tried
OF our college dear song.
CHORUS.
Washburn, Washburn we love thee well
With voices free we sing of thee,
And ever thy praise we tell.
'Tis not of thy boarded light.
It's not for thy stately halls;
But tbs for might, the sword Of right,
The sons obey thy calls
The winds for thee music make.
The prairies their strength reveal;
Our glorious state, our Kansas great,
On thee hath set her seal.
The state university, at Lawrence. has
a new college song which will glad
den the heart of a German, as we'll as
a grad from Mt. Dread. The air used Is
Die Yacht Am Rhsin." The words
I were written last fall by Prof W Ii
best of Kansas poetry, in honor of the
Inauguration of Frank Strong as chan
cellor. K. u. has other college songs
but this is by far the best It is as
follows
ROCK CHALK SONG.
What means this thunder deep and strong
This echo rolling loud and iOngT
1t rings with aIl-abounding life.
It browns the noise of hate and strife.
I For alma mater. fond and true.
Raise we the shout: Rock Chalk. jay
Hawk. K. I.i
This war cry thrills the Kansan's soul.
It spurs TO every lofty goal;
No organ tones can match its notes
When Numbered from a thousand Threats
For alma mater, fond and true,
Raise we the shout. Rock Chalk, jar
Hawk. K I'll
Then all good Kansas maids and men,
Join in the chorus once again;
Our voices pledge us heart and hand
To serve our gOodly Kansas-lano.
For alma mater, fond and true.
Raise we the shout: Rock Chalk. ia,
Hawk, K. u!
Midland College, at Atchison. uses TIL
familiar air Maryland. My Maryland
for her college song. The song was writ
1894. Prof. Aeixeli died last year. Twl
of the verses are as follows
RAH-RAH. HURRAH FOR MIDLAND
For Midland let US cheer and sing
Rah-raht Hurrah for Midland.
For her let our proud triumphs ring
Rah-rah. Hurrah for Midland
Untouched by strife. unmoved by fear,
She stands supreme without a peer.
Her halls we love. her name revere
Rah-rah, Hurrah for Midlandi
Then let Us shout and let us sing
Rah-rah. HUrrah for Midland.
In triumph let our voices ring
Rah-rah. Hurrah for Midland
FYtzAFfnaH loNal hearts and true.