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...nearly a year New Haven has been seeking a more suitable college anthem, but because of failure up to the present time a new and more intensive campaign has been commenced which will not end, until next October...
...enough, a great deal of dissatisfaction with "Bright College Years," but with the end of the conflict it was expected that this song could be resumed. However, unforeseen difficulties arose. The inflow of prominent Allied visitors made it impossible on many occasions for the Elis to sing their college anthem. Of most vidid memory to Harvard men is the game in the Bowl two years ago when M. Clemenceau was the cause of "For God, for country, and for Yale" being sung mentally...
...favorite pastime of German radio fans is listening to Deutsehland Uber A lies. It recently came to the notice of German newspapers that whenever their pet anthem is played "some one, somewhere, butts in." "Somewhere" was defined as "in the direction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris." The newspapers then chorused that playing the anthem is not a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and that Germans are entitled to play it as much as they like...
Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "The Municipal Council of Guaymallein, town in Argentina, voted on the name for a new street. Five of the City Fathers thought the thoroughfare should be called Vicente Lopez, in honor of the author of the Argentine national anthem. Five others voted for Luis Angel Firpo. The tie necessitated the casting of the decisive ballot by the President of the Council, with the result that the street will henceforth be known as Calle Luis Angel Firpo. When some of the Councillors later took the President to task for voting for me instead of the patriot...
Britishers who forgot their national anthem...