Be You @ BU Fall 2022 Magazine

Raise a Toast: Our School Song From the minute you set foot on campus, you will hear the singing of our adopted school song with the opening stanza, “Raise a Toast to Bishop’s University.” You will undoubtedly sing it yourself multiple times during Orientation Week, in par- ticular when all fi rst-year students gather on the Principal’s front lawn (yes, he lives on campus!) for the annual tradition of serenading him late in the evening. This became the Bishop’s marching, or “ fi ght” song that was composed by Gaiter Alumni John Piper and Alex Henderson (Class of 1965) for a short pol- itical satire entitled The Grate Escape, staged during the winter carnival in 1964. The actual school song is called Alma Mater, and the tune was adapted by Rev. Sidney Mead from an old German Folk song. Trust us: the following are the only words you will ever need to know:

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Raise a Toast To Bishop’s University,

On the mighty Massawippi shore. We’re conditioned to our fate, We will never graduate, We will stay here forever more.

College days will linger Ever in our hearts, Wearing gowns, raising hell, and quaffing ale. And we’ll show “esprit-de-corps” As we watch the Gaiters roar On to victory.

So, raise your beer mugs And your little brown jugs To Bishop’s University!

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