Titanic : Cornell Alma Mater
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No-They went to Perdue. They were just singing a bunch of college songs.
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Oh sorry,
i haven't seen it in a while and just remembered him wearing a college sweater and singing the songs. Thanks for the correction.
i haven't seen it in a while and just remembered him wearing a college sweater and singing the songs. Thanks for the correction.
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LOL.as Giff says referring to his sweater, most people think it's Princeton, but it's Purdue, that's a college in Indiana.
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I've been awake all night trying to remember which college the song was about. I had the tune, but couldn't remember the college. They also sang the Auburn University Alma Mata I think. Regardless, does anyone have the lyrics to the Cornell Alma Mater? Guess I could Google it, huh? LOL
Oh Jerry,don't lets ask for the moon,we have the stars.
Oh Jerry,don't lets ask for the moon,we have the stars.
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Saw in another thread, someone explaining that Wagner graduated from Cornell. Also, they'd know the songs of other colleges, or they'd soon run out of them to sing.
Old American Songs & Americana Generally
I got a sense from multiple viewings of Titanic53 that the film's screenwriters knew more than a thing or two about American culture and customs of late 19th-early 20th century America. Either someone was old enough to remember that time or else did his homework well.
As to the college songs, it seemed that if a college had a good song it would enjoy some popular success; as sheet music, on stage, even in families, when families would sing after (or was it before?) Sunday dinner. That was another America. Once in a while the movies would give us a few glimpses of those days.
Titanic's leading player, Clifton Webb, appeared to have had a corner on starring in films celebrating those "good old days" of marching bands, big families, polite and rather formal children (if middle class or higher), and even the horses and buggies that could still be seen on city streets well into the 20th century.
As to the college songs, it seemed that if a college had a good song it would enjoy some popular success; as sheet music, on stage, even in families, when families would sing after (or was it before?) Sunday dinner. That was another America. Once in a while the movies would give us a few glimpses of those days.
Titanic's leading player, Clifton Webb, appeared to have had a corner on starring in films celebrating those "good old days" of marching bands, big families, polite and rather formal children (if middle class or higher), and even the horses and buggies that could still be seen on city streets well into the 20th century.
Cornell Alma Mater