*Syracuse* Northwest of Orangetown, New York,Traveling east of a town called Orangeville,You will come uponSyracuse, New York: Welcome to Orange Nation. *** There’s an Orange progressive spillThat’s Radioactive.The contagion is the Syracuse thrillGoing Retroactive.History’s reshapedinsideOrange Nation;In Syracuse, New York,Where we…
*Rutgers—New Brunswick* Scarlet Knights,WeTake New Brunswick!And with the Raiders & RaptorsWe make New Jersey!Inside theThe State University of New Jersey,We’ve arrived at the floodgates ofcollege life.With 60,000 Knights in the Rutgers cavalry,it’s unquestioned:R-UIs Ready. *** R-U Rah Rah!R-U Rah Rah!Hoo-Rah!…
*Dartmouth* Dartmouth is outdoors:The vision & tenorof the scene,Calling our fair name—The Big Green. Dartmouth is the Lodge:Our faithful lairby the ravine,In the virescence of sweet nature—The Big Green. She is the streak of green effuse,We streak like the Greek…
*BU* (Set to the Melody of “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond) It begins in the fall,That’s when we fall for it all,Oh BU−How we love you.The Gah-dens of spring,And Fenway Park of summer,Is where the love comes shining through. SoulsJoining…
*Clark University* We have graduated to the next level,A stage beveled for the secondary,Challenge Convention as a competitive rebel,LEEP into the world and out the ordinary.Reform high schools with collaborative gifts,Rise above the grounds of the sedentary,When Clarkies LEEP, the…
*Harvard* Across the Charles River is the bridge of mass builderswho have walked 364.4 Smoots,Entering Cambridge for the smartest institution,Right past Harvard to the brainpower’s root:M! I! T!In the bibliography of this poem—Credit the title to Florey, Jack.The Crimson rerouted…
*UMaine* All year round the Black Bears claw through the East Outlet ofwaterways waving out to a free flow offresh lobsters, land-locked salmon, and native troutfrom the brooks. Hiking the forested coastlines through scented tassels,We are elevated by the free…
*UD* By ratifying the United States Constitution in 1787,Delaware not only became the first state of ourremarkable country,but it enabled citizens like the Blue Hensto wade the river onto Delaware,Receiving payouts of freedomin this settlement.These wings have taken programs in…
*Quinnipiac University* A Quinnipiac Bobcat has found a quiet place in the woods of the Sleeping Giant State Parka short walk from campus.Hours after his slumber, and hours before each home game,This is how he awakens. It is the brunch…
*UW—Madison* Go On, Wisconsin. Proceed as the Badgers that burrow through this state’s bureaus&Mine a line of reform that runs roughshod throughout these United States.Stay the activists on the frontlines who major in change.So say we, The People’s Republic of…
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