Prize Song Chosen

Announcement was made recently by President Hopkins that the award of $1,000 for the best musical setting for the poem, "Our Liege Lady Dartmouth," had been given to Rob Roy Peery of Salisbury, North Carolina. A committee of three judges made up of Judge Nelson P. Brown '99 of Everett, Mass., chairman; former Governor Channing H. Cox '01, of Boston; and Charles E. Griffith '15, of New York City selected Mr. Peery's composition from nearly two hundred manuscripts submitted in the contest.

The Dartmouth Glee Club gave the first public interpretation of the new Dartmouth song during the traditional observance of wet-down Saturday. According to the committee of judges "Our Liege Lady Dartmouth" offers an especially attractive score for use by the Glee Club and the Band.

Rob Roy Peery is the director of his own school of music in Salisbury, North Carolina. He is particularly well known for his male quartet compositions. Mr. Peery has composed two popular college songs, one for Oberlin and another for Midland College.

Richard Crawford Campbell '85, recently deceased, made possible the prize song contest which was opened in February of last year. He offered the prize of $1,000 for the best setting for Hovey's poem, with the competition open to any one, the sole stipulation being that the composition, if accepted, should become the property of Dartmouth College.

"Our Liege Lady Dartmouth," the words of which follow, was written in 1891 and was first published in 1898, in the first edition of the "Dartmouth Song Book:"