Mount Allison sings!
Songs
In the 1906 autumn semester, Ladies' College vocal culture teacher Kate Hemming compiled Mount Allison's first songbook, Mount Allison Songs, which was published in 1908. It gathered songs composed by Mount Allison students, in addition to popular selections that were favoured across campus. Mount Allison's "Alma Mater Song," written by Winthrop Pickard Bell, Class of 1904, was included in this edition.
The publication of Mount Allison Songs was long overdue. The University of New Brunswick had published its first songbook in 1881, and Nova Scotia colleges Acadia and Dalhousie had published their first songbooks in 1903 and 1904, respectively.
Students not only sang songs while attending games, but the songs were also regular components of athletic trips. Clementina Pickard, Class of 1915, remarked in a 1976 interview that Mount Allison students sang a lot during her time as a student, and that there were "so many college songs and we sang at football games."
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Cover of Mount Allison Songs, published 1908
Mount Allison banner, Class of 1910
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