God With One

(The New Fraternity is "an independent Yale paper," having "access to an accumulation of both illuminant and entertaining material which other papers have neither the independence nor the courage to publish." It is edited by George Frederick Gundelfinger, Ph.D.*)

"Bright College years" needs just such an improvement. The melody and harmonies could not be improved upon, and the words are excellent in sentiment and in selection; but the words do not always fit the music as nicely as they should. While a Marion Talley can easily and artistically spread one word or one syllable of a word over from three to thirty-three notes, it gives a rather awkward effect if many inexperienced and uncultured voices attempt to do likewise in particular when the syllable is not euphonious in itself.

We are referring to the familiar "For God, for Country and for Yale" which must be sung: "For God, for Ca-a-unt-ry and for Yale"--which is loathsome but which can be made very unannoying and definite not by changing the words at all but by repeating two of them, thus: "For God for God, for Country and for Yale." Furthermore, this not only adds smoothness and decision but puts the greatest emphasis where emphasis is lacking. In our undergraduate course in English at Yale, we were told that the order For God, For Country and for Yale was a splendid example of an anticlimax.

We do not expect too much credit for this trivial but splendid change.

The New Fraternity.

*Author of "Bailey and Public Opinion An Analysis of the Mind of Yale's President-Emeritus", "An Original Interpretation of Sexual Phenomena. A Letter to the Yale News," "The Ice Lena A Four-Act Play on Academic Immoralities," "Why the Bulldog is Losing His Grip Secret Chapters in Yale Football History," and "My Dismissal From the Carnegle Institute of Technology."