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"On the Banks of the Old Raritan" is a song, or ''alma mater'', associated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (previously Rutgers College and Rutgers University), in the United States. The original lyrics were written in 1873 by Howard Newton Fuller, an 1874 graduate of Rutgers College.〔Rutgers College and Raven, John Howard (Rev.) (compiler). Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (originally Queen's College) in New Brunswick, N.J., 1766–1916. (Trenton, New Jersey: State Gazette Publishing Company, 1916), 162.〕 Fuller quickly prepared the song as a school hymn for the college's Glee Club, an all-male choral ensemble, before a performance in Metuchen, New Jersey. Fuller chose to set the lyrics to the tune of melody, "On the Banks of the Old Dundee", a popular Scottish melody regarded as a drinking song, and titled the song for the Raritan River. ==Composition and history== Rutgers College student Edwin E. Colburn (class of 1876) organized the college's Glee Club, an all-male choral ensemble, after noticing that Rutgers was not included when the first edition of the ''Carmina Collegensia'' (1869) was published and advertised as a complete collection of American college songs.〔''Carmina Collegensia''. (Boston: Oliver Dison & Co., 1869).〕 In 1873, on the night of a performance in Metuchen, New Jersey, Colburn approached his fellow student Howard Newton Fuller (1853– ), to compose a tune and some lyrics that the club could use as an official school song, or ''alma mater''. Fuller wrote the lyrics in two hours setting them to the tune of a popular melody ''On the Banks of the Old Dundee.'' According to a later interview with the ''Rutgers Alumni Monthly'', Fuller stated he chose "On the Banks of the Old Dundee" as the song "immediately struck me that the air of that song had the right melody and the stirring and martial swing for an effective college song." 〔George J. Lukac (ed.), ''Aloud to Alma Mater''. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1966), 70-73. (No ISBN)〕〔("Singing Songs of Scarlet" ) from the ''Daily Targum'' 18 May 2006.〕 "On the Banks of the Old Raritan" and thirteen other Rutgers songs appeared in the second edition of the ''Carmina Collegensia'', published in 1876.〔Henry Randall Waite (ed.). ''Carmina collegensia : a complete collection of the songs of the American colleges : with selections from the student songs of the English and German universities, and popular songs adapted to college singing'' (Boston: O. Dison; New York: C.H. Ditson, 1876).〕 It is often sung at university occasions, including performances of the Rutgers University Glee Club, and other campus musical groups, at convocation and commencement exercises, and especially at the conclusion of athletic events. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「On the Banks of the Old Raritan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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