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CHAPTER 29

CoLLEGE SoNos of THE WILLAMETTE WALLEY Sing a song of colleges, §ºf. like to go? Pacific for her orators, For football U. of O.. O. A. C. for farmer boys, Willamette you can guess. Good old “Mac” for preacher boys, But for schoolmates O. N. S.

Oregon Normal school song.

THIS is the third and concluding chapter on songs as a part of Oregon literature.

In Oregon in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s there was a wide assortment of seminaries, institutes, academies, colleges and universities, a few of which were the beginnings of institutions still in existence but most of which have long been extinct. They played an important part in the early culture of the state. They seem to have had much more influence, however, in spreading and deepening the appreciation of literature than upon its original production. Their literary associations are less numerous than would be expected. G. B. Kuykendall was a graduate of Umpqua Academy; W. L. Adams, author of “Breakspear”, was a trustee of Bethel Institute and was given an honorary master’s degree by Christian College at Monmouth; Joaquin Miller received all his academic training in Columbia College at Eugene; Sam. L. Simpson and his brother Sylvester were graduates of Willamette University, and Belle W. Cooke was a teacher in the Oregon Institute, which T.T. Geer attended for about 18 months; Harvey W. Scott was the first graduate of Pacific University, and the two Lyman brothers were of the classes of 1873 and 1878; J. B. Horner