Book Description
Excerpt from The Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, Vol. 8: May 1, 1911 I have had the privilege of visiting a large number of fraternities and observing them in their chapter life. Too often there is almost total neglect of musical enjoyment. This is unfortunate. For what can promote fraternalism more than the enthusiastic participation in a rousing fraternity song? What can stir the heart of the old grad more than the singing of the fraternity songs of his college days? I have seen the eyes of some of our alumni swim in tears of joy and appreciation as the boys of Kansas Alpha sang some of the songs we here submit. The power of song has been recognized through the ages. These in uences are far more potent in fraternity life for we here have interests and purposes more nearly similar than is possible in other spheres and organizations. Let us then give expression to our enthusiasm through one of the most enjoyable and profitable avenues - chapter singing. To this end let our brothers of talent give time and attention to the composition of new songs and let each chapter send in songs as rapidly as they are composed. We do not expect that these songs will mean to our sister chapters what they do to Kansas Alpha. You have not had the privilege of knowing their composers and the circumstances of their composition. However, I feel that a few remarks about each song would not be out of order. The one by Brother Allis is very impressive when properly sung. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."