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“SOLDIERS FIELD”
R.K. Fletcher ’08, W.W. Gallagher ’04 and H. Davenport ’04
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1st verse
O’er the stands of flaming Crimson
Harvard banners fly.
Cheer on cheer like volleyed thunder
Echoes to the sky.
See the Crimson tide is turning
Gaining more and more,
Then fight! fight! fight! For we win tonight
Old Harvard forevermore.
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“TEN THOUSAND MEN OF HARVARD”
(A. Putnam ’18)
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1st Verse
Ten Thousand Men of Harvard want victory today
For they know that o’er old Eli
Fair Harvard holds sway.
So then we’ll conquer all old Eli’s men,
And when the game ends we’ll sing again:
Ten Thousand Men of Harvard gained vict’ry today.
Band Verse
Illegitimum non Carborundum; Domine salvum fac.
Illegitimum non Carborundum; Domine salvum fac.
Gaudeamus igitur!
Veritas non sequitur?
Illegitimum non Carborundum—Ipso facto!
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“GRIDIRON KING”
R.K. Fletcher ’08
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1st Verse
Then hit the line for Harvard,
For Harvard wins today!
We will show the sons of Eli
That the Crimson still holds sway.
Sweep down the field again,
Victory or die!
And we’ll give the grand old cheer boys,
When the Harvard team goes by.
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“HARVARDIANA”
R.G. Williams ’11 and S.B. Steel ’11
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1st Verse
With Crimson in triumph flashing
Mid the strains of victory,
Poor Eli’s hopes we are dashing
Into blue obscurity.
Resistless our team sweeps goal ward
With the fury of the blast;
We’ll fight for the name of Harvard
‘Till the last white line is passed
Harvard! Harvard! Harvard! (2x)
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“HARVARDIANA”
R.G. Williams ’11 and S.B. Steel ’11
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1st Verse
With Crimson in triumph flashing
Mid the strains of victory,
Poor Eli’s hopes we are dashing
Into blue obscurity.
Resistless our team sweeps goal ward
With the fury of the blast;
We’ll fight for the name of Harvard
‘Till the last white line is passed
Harvard! Harvard! Harvard! (2x)
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“OUR DIRECTOR”
F.E. Bigelow
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1st Verse
Hard luck for poor Eli,
Tough on the blue
Now. All together,
Smash them and break them through.
‘Gainst the line of Crimson
They can’t prevail
Three cheers for Harvard!
And down with Yale!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Down with Yale!
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“UP THE STREET”
R.G. Morse 1896 and W. L. W. Field 1898
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1st Verse
Look where the Crimson banners fly!
Hark to the sound of tramping feet!
There is a host approaching nigh!
Harvard is marching up the street,
Onward to victory again,
Marching to drumbeat and to song;
Oh, hear the refrain as it thunders along,
As it thunders along.
Behold, they come in view,
Who wear the Crimson hue;
Whose arms are strong, whose hearts are true
Ever to Harvard, ever to Harvard.
And Harvard’s glory shall be our aim,
And through the ages the sound shall roll,
When all together we cheer her name,
When we cheer her with heart and soul.
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“VERITAS”
J.H. Densmore ’04
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1st Verse
We say Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
There’s never an Eli can teach us to play!
Harvard! Harvard! Harvard!
See how the bleachers blue turn pale with fright;
Send a cheer across to bleach ‘em nice and white!
Oh, look at the way we smash and rib ‘em through
While the blue bull-dog howls “Boo-la, boo-la, boo!”
Let out your voices now so loud and hale,
‘Tis a fun’ral ode we sing to Eli Yale.
Oh, give us a yell, Hi! Hi! For Harvard
For the Crimson today!
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“YO HO”
R.K. Fletcher ’08
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1st Verse
Yo Ho! The good ship Harvard
Is goalward bound again;
All the crew are at the halyards,
Here’s a hail for Johnny Harvard’s men,
Bright Crimson at the forepeak
Rides high above the foam.
While we sweep through the deep blue,
Harvard strikes home!
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“FAIR HARVARD”
S. Gilman 1811
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1st Verse
Fair Harvard! thy sons to thy jubilee throng.
And with blessings surrender thee o’er
By these festival rights, from the age that is past
To the age that is waiting before.
O relic and type of our ancestor’s worth
That has long kept their memory warm,
First flower of the wilderness! star of their night!
Calm rising through change and through storm!
2nd Verse
Farewell! thy destinies onward and bright!
To thy children the lesson still give,
With freedom to think, and with patience to bear,
And for right ever bravely to live.
Let not moss-covered moor thee at its side,
As the world on truth’s current glides by,
Be the herald of light, and the bearer of love,
Till the stock of the Puritans die.
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“FIGHT FIERCELY, HARVARD”
T. Lehrer ’47
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1st Verse
Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
Fight, Fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless we have the will.
How we shall celebrate our victory:
We shall invite the whole team
Up for tea! How jolly!
Hurl that spheroid down the field
And Fight! Fight! Fight!
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