Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray

Subject: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray...
From: Haruo
Date: 03 Jan 01 - 12:19 AM

The Princeton alma mater since 1859 has been "Old Nassau"; the first stanza and refrain are as follows, but the rest I have been unable to locate. Anybody got it?

Tune ev'ry heart and ev'ry voice
Bid ev'ry care withdraw.
Let all with one accord rejoice
In praise of Old Nassau.

In praise of Old Nassau we sing,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Our hearts will give
While we shall live
In praise of Old Nassau.

I'm also looking for the words to the Vassar College song The Rose and Silver Gray, probably not the current alma mater since a Google search doesn't show lyrics.

And while we're at it, I'd love a small MIDI or two (not the Princeton Band's 2Mb mpeg file) of the current tune(s). I'm also still trying to come up with a MIDI of Bow Down to Washington (even more appropriate since the drubbing we gave Purdue ;-) (for my Huskies fan page — it's got "Vict'ry for Washington" playing at the moment.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Haruo
Date: 04 Jan 01 - 09:05 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 06:18 PM

Liland, I found this:

1868, Oct. 11

Ellen Swallow, '70, wrote to her mother: "I send you a bit of our college colors, rose and silver gray... One and onehalf yards each we have and wear in some form on public occasions." The colors signified the dawn of women's education, "the rose of sunlight breaking through the gray of women's intellectual life."
from http://vassun.vassar.edu/~daniels/1861_1870.html

That is all Copernic Search had. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 07:14 PM

Hi, Liland - the Levy site has The Guard of Old Nassau (click) - not the one you want, but I thought it might interest you. -Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Sarah2
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 09:09 PM

Liland,

Have e-mailed a Princeton alumnus I know for the words to "Old Nassau" and hope to have that soon, so keep checking here.

I think one of the women at my workplace is a Vassar alumna, too, but she's out of town this week. Will ask (not sure, though...)

Sarah

Subject: Lyr Add: OLD NASSAU (Peck, Langlotz)
From: MMario
Date: 11 Jan 01 - 11:44 AM

Old Nassau

OLD NASSAU
(Lyrics Harlan Page Peck Music Karl A Langlotz

1. Tune ev'ry heart and ev'ry voice,
Bid ev'ry care withdraw;
Let all with one accord rejoice,
In praise of Old Nassau

Chorus-
In praise of Old Nassau, my boys,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Her sons will give, while they shall live,
Three cheers for old Nassau.

2. Let music rule the fleeting hour,
Her mantle round us draw;
And thrill each heart with all her pow'r,
In praise of Old Nassau,
(Chorus)

3. And when these walls in dust are laid,
With reverence and awe,
Another throng shall breathe our song,
In praise of Old Nassau,
(Chorus)

4. Till then with joy our songs we'll bring,
And while a breath we draw,
We'll all unite to shout and sing:
Long life to Old Nassau.
(Chorus)

see also this page. mentions portions of three more verses.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 11 Jan 01 - 06:50 PM

Hey thanks, MMario. I'm a Princeton alum ('73), and I never knew all those verses even existed! When we sang Old Nassau at the end of every football or basketball game, we would all put our hands (or hats, presumably) over our hearts and then extend our arms out, on every other beat, if you get the picture. A little tedious, but impressive when a whole stadium is doing it. Old silly habits die hard in the Ivy League...I think Yalies still wave handkerchiefs.

Aloha, and a locomotive to you all
Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Haruo
Date: 11 Jan 01 - 09:29 PM

Thanks MMario (and I'm still hoping anent the Vassar tune, Sarah2)...

MMario, I had seen the second page you linked to but had given up on trying to decipher it, because although it states

The words and music of the first verse and chorus are displayed below. The words of the other three verses are as follows:

What was actually displayed below was obviously not the words and music of anything, and then there were all those disconcerting question marks... ;-) I am still interested in a small MIDI of the tune, if anyone has one, though for my personal purposes (being a Yalie) I can get by fine singing it to "I fee'd a lad at Michaelmas"...

Let music rule the fleeting hour,
Her mantle round us draw
And thrill each heart with all her power,
In praise of Old Nassau.''

~?????????????????/THERE IS A SECTION OF MUSIC HERE, WITH NOTES AND WORDS THAT COULD NOT BE REPRODUCED????????????????

``And when these walls in dust are laid,
With reverence and awe,
Another throng shall breathe our song,
In praise of Old Nassau.
Till then with joy our songs we'll bring,
And while a breath we draw,
We'll all unite to shout and sing,
Long life to Old Nassau.''

Liland

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 11:28 PM

Liland, I just picked up a copy of the Abridged Academy Song-Book, published by Ginn in 1898 (it cost me two bucks). It has the same verses MMario posted, but in the middle it has this as the third verse:

No flow'ry chaplet would we twine
To wither and decay;
The gems that sparkle in her crown
Shall never pass away.

Note how the chorus goes in this book:

Shall never pass away, my boys.
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Her sons will give, while they shall live,
Three cheers for old Nassau.

First two choruses begin with "In praise of old Nassau, my boys. Three is "Shall Never Pass Away"; four "In praise of old Nassau" again, and five "Long Life to old Nassau."
Apparently, the first line of each chorus is the last line of each verse.
Sorry, the book does not have Vassar songs.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Sarah2
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 12:21 AM

Sorry, no luck with my supposed Vassar grad at work: wrong college altogether.

Sarah

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 11:05 PM

Here's a sobering thought. The land for the College of New Jersey (the name was changed to Princeton University at the sesquicentennial in 1896) was donated by a man named Belcher. Generations of Princetonians are thankful that he declined the offer to have the first college building named for him, but instead asked that the honor go to his favorite monarch, William of Orange, of the House of Nassau.

Aloha,
Mark '73

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
From: Haruo
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 07:28 PM

I've started a separate thread just for the Rose and Silver Gray, in case the title "Old Nassau" was misleading.

Liland