The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-12
HEALD PRIZE SONG AWARD
0RGANIST BINGHAM WINS
He, With W. Brian Hooker, h. structor in Rhetoric, Gets
 $500 Prize.

IllS announcement or the dNsll ul45 .of the Heald prize of $500 offered for good Yale song has just been made. Thn song which received the award is called Mother of Men" The words to the song were written by W. Brian Hook CT, '02, instructor in rhetoric, and the music by Seth D. Bingham, 'O4, assis- tant in organ playing to be published later). Mir, Hooker's song is as fol- lows:
 Mother of Men.
 Mother of Men, grown strong in giving
 Honor to them thy lights have led Rich in the toll of thousands living,
 Proud of the deeds of thousands dead, We who have felt thy power, and know
 thee.
 We in whose work thy gifts avail High in our hearts enshrined enthrone
 Mother of Men-oid Yale!
 Spirit of Youth. alive, unchanging,
 Under whose feet the years are cast Heir to an ageless empire, ranging
 Over the future and the past Thee. whom our fathers loved before us,
 Thee, whom our sons unborn shall Praise we to-day in sturdy chorus,
 Mother of Men-Old Yale!
 After tke original offer by John o. Heald, '7S of $50 for an original Yale so6A of the type of Bright College YeaA "Old Nassau or "Fair Har- yard" had been outstanding for num- Der of years without bringing any song which was considered worthy of an award, the offered prize was increased last year by the cooperation of two graduates, to $3CO in an effort to call forth song of merit and permanent value. A committee was appointed to formulate regulations for the competi- ton and to pass upon the merits of the songs submitted, retaining, as in pre- vlous years, the right to Withhold the award if no song of sufficient merit was produced. The committee consist ed of Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., '9s secretary of the university; Professor Edward B. Reed, '94, Professor Harry B. Jepson, 93, and Winthrop L. Car ter '07 leader of the 1907 Glee club From a number of songs submitted Mother of Men" was unanimously awarded the prize by the committee, and the composers were heartily com mended for their success in creating so spirited and successful a song,
 William Brian Hooker, the author of the words for the Heald song, gradu- ated from Yale in 1902, having special izeddn English and Composition. Dur ing his college course he was active and remarkably successful in amateur dramatics, having written the books to number of comedies and operas put on the amateur stage by his ciass- mates After graduating he studied at the Yale Graduate school, receiving an NJ. A. degree for work In English in 1904. .->For the next two years he was at Columbia university as instructor in rhetoric and in the fall of 1906 was called to fill the same position at Yale He has written continuously and suc- cessfully for magazines, especially in verse, since graduation. In college he was editor of the Lit and Record.
 Seth D. Bingham, who composed the music for the Heald song, graduated from Yale in the class of 1904. During his college course he was organist at St. Paul's church, New Haven, Conn., end substituted for Professor H. P. Jepson, '9S, as orehaist at Battell chapel After graduating he studied at the Yale Music school, where he took high honors as an exceptionally gifted composer and organlst and spent last year in the study of music in Paris, under Widor. He returned to Yale this fall to accept the position as as- sistant In organ playing Tn college he was a member of the University Giee club