Aspire Campaign Co-Chair Robert S. Murley ’72 and the Princeton mascot sing “Old Nassau.”
According to Alexander Leitch in A Princeton Companion, a few days after the words and music to “Old Nassau” were published in a collection in April 1859, a group of students gathered at the northeast corner of Nassau Hall to try some of the songs. Most of the college had gathered to listen and when the group finished “Old Nassau,” the listeners responded with an enthusiastic skyrocket cheer, which forecast the devotion with which succeeding generations of Princetonians would sing “in praise of old Nassau.”
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