THE DARTMOUTH SONG

The Rochester Courier gives the following interesting information about the author of the "Dartmouth Song" :

There was at least one Dartmouth man who must have heard the result of the Princeton game with mingled emotons. That was Willard Blossom Segur, whose name stands fast in college annals as the author of "The Dartmouth Song." Segur was a Princeton graduate before he came to Hanover and entered the Dartmouth Medical College, from which he received a degree in '92. At Dartmouth, Segur was a powerful guard on the football eleven, but at Princeton he played on the varsity lacrosse team, and while at Hanover he made an unsuccessful attempt to introduce the Canadian sport there. The story of the writing of the Dartmouth Song has never been told in print. Segur, in addition to being a splendid athlete, had a good voice and was a member of the college glee club. In the fall of 1891, before the club's season began, but while rehearsals were in progress, its members were bewailing the lack of a typical song to represent Dartmouth and to close the evening's program. One night Segur came into the room of the club pianist, now the Honorable Guy W. Cox '93 of the Boston Bar, and read to him the words of "The Dartmouth Song" almost exactly as they were sung in Boston at the joint concert of the Harvard and Dartmouth musical clubs Segur and Cox, working together, picked out a tune to which the words couklbe sung, and that too has held its own for almost twenty years. Both words and music are simple, and many attempts have been made to supplant them with more ambitious lyrics, but without avail. About the only change that has been made was in the line, "the green and white without a peer." Some one discovered that the college color is solid green without any white in it, so now the line is sung, "Old Dartmouth's green without a peer.