Great Graduation Gift!!!!
This is the sheet music of a college song for LAKE FOREST COLLEGE in ILLINOIS titled "FIGHT SONG". Words and music by LUCIUS LOBDELL. Music and words are included on 1 page. This comes from a 1938 books of songs. This music is in great condition - of course the paper has that lovely yellowing color of old books. When framed, this would make a wonderful Christmas, graduation or birthday gift for any LAKE FOREST student, graduate or alumni. Page measures approximately 8.5 x 12".
GO BLACK BEARS!
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THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF MUSIC, NOT A COPY, but this is an actual page from an old song book!
Some variations from the picture may occur.
Item will be carefully mailed in a stiff mailer.
LAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
Lake Forest was founded in 1857 by Reverend Robert W. Patterson as a
Presbyterian (though it now maintains no religious affiliation)
alternative to the Methodist Northwestern University in Evanston. After
stopping the train heading north from Chicago, Patterson and his fellow
Chicago Presbyterians decided to establish a town and university upon
the highest bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. St. Louis architect Almerin
Hotchkiss was hired to design the town of Lake Forest with a university
park at its center. Hotchkiss used the ravines and forest as guidelines
to create a layout that seemed consistent with the natural boundaries
and paths. Lake Forest Academy, the first stage in the development of
the university, began in 1858, while collegiate-level courses began in
1860. By the mid-1860s the fruits of this university-park vision were
realized as a small New England-style village had been established with
an academy building, a Presbyterian church and several homes. For a
short time, the college was known as Lind University, named after the
man who had given $80,000 to launch the university. But, by 1865, the
name reverted the Lake Forest University. The next large step forward
for the college came in 1876 when Mary Eveline Smith Farwell launched
Lake Forest College, a division of the university, under the leadership
of the Reverend Patterson. In 1878, College Hall (now Young Hall) was
built following a fire that destroyed the former hotel being used for
classes.
In
1876 Mary Eveline Smith Farwell of Lake Forest, the wife of U. S.
Senator Charles B. Farwell, decided that her able daughter, Anna,
should remain at home while pursuing a college degree, but that she
needed the kind of intellectual exposure that a coeducational college
of the Eastern sort would offer. Mary Farwell herself had studied as a
young woman with the daughters of Mark Hopkins, a key architect of the
American college ideal, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Thus, she
launched Lake Forest College, a division of the University, in a wooden
lakefront gingerbread-style hotel that had been bankrupt in the Panic
of 1873. She hired faculty and gave scholarships to some capable
Chicago high school students and, under the distinguished leadership of
the Reverend Patterson as the first president, the College was in
business.
"FIGHT SONG"
"Fight
for Lake Forest, Fight for the Red and the Black. We'll take the ball
right thru them all, Nothing can hold us back, Fight, Fight, Fight,
We'll stand together loyal and ever true, Fight, Fight, Fight, for Lake
Forest, Fight for old L.F.U."
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