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Assembly Halls To build the answers here, first try to identify as many words and phrases as you can from the clues given. Each string of letters in the boxes below can become one of those answers when you insert the letters in the name of one of the Colgate halls shown here. The letters will be inserted in order, but not all in one place. For example, the string of letters ASADMEAS can become “Ways and Means� by inserting the letters in WYNN. Each hall will be used once. See solution on pg. 73.
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Then & now Dining at Colgate — from pre-made meals (1960s, pictured left) to made-to-order cuisine at various serving stations.
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Rewind Ever wonder how the “Alma Mater� came about? The 21st Century Colgate Song Book, published in November, sheds some light on “that old song of yore.� In the early 1900s, Colgate University needed a new song to accompany its new name (having switched from Madison University in 1890). The school and town organized a competition, open to all comers, to create an official alma mater. The prizewinner was Lindol E. French, Class of 1902, who, among other roles, served as class poet. He set his lyrics to a popular ballad he liked, “Juanita,� in 1904. But, according to Howard Williams’s A History of Colgate University, French “knew nothing of their enthusiastic acceptance until he discovered at a football game some time later [that] the students were singing them as the ‘Alma Mater.’� The lyrics have subsequently been changed slightly — twice. The author ultimately decided that “gushes� in the second verse should change to “lingers,� so the phrase would read: “that the mem’ry lingers o’er.� The university agreed and the change was made official. Then, in the 1970s, when Colgate became coeducational, the word “ones� replaced “sons� in the line “yearly roam thy loving ones.� Colgate, Alma Mater, fairest theme of all our lays! Colgate, Alma Mater, ever blest thy days. What’s your fondest memory of singing the Alma Mater? Share it at facebook.com/ colgateuniversity.