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This was the “Faculty Song,” a wisecracking tribute to the professors who, like the pelican on the sundial in McCosh Courtyard, tear at their own hearts to nourish the young. For almost a century, the “Faculty Song” celebrated the convivial, combative relationship between students and faculty.</p><p>The tradition that students called “senior singing” started in 1760. Every night around the time of Commencement, the graduating class would sing a medley of college songs and popular ditties on the steps of Nassau Hall. (Today, the seniors perform a one-night “step sing” on the steps of Blair Arch.)</p><p>In 1894, Imbrie met, during his summer vacation, a young man who was studying at Trinity College in Connecticut, and who explained a similar tradition that Trinity students had started. </p><p>“I learned about its faculty song from him,” Imbrie later wrote. “So in the spring of 1895 I wrote some verses about members of the Princeton faculty, and they were printed for the Senior singing.” (The song took its tune from a Scottish ballad called “The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre.”)</p><p>The song was a hit. Thereafter, some 85 senior classes sang the “Faculty Song,” updating it every year with new verses to reflect new jokes and new faculty. Students would submit suggestions for verses to a student committee that would select the best ones; some verses were judged so funny that they remained unchanged for decades.</p><p>For Paul Ramsey, a professor of religion: <em>“Ramsey’s a self-righteous gent / Who preaches from the Testament, / But beer does more than Ramsey can / To justify God’s faith in Man.”</em></p><p>For Walter Hall, who managed to become the most popular instructor on campus despite the notable disadvantage of having graduated from Yale: <em>“Here’s to Eli Walter Hall, / If he had any dope at all, / He’d shoot that darned New Haven pup / And bring a Princeton Tiger up!”</em></p><p>For Albert Einstein, who gave lectures at the University, though his home was the Institute for Advanced Study: <em>“The bright boys here all study math / And Albie Einstein points the path / Although he seldom takes the air, / We wish to God he’d cut his hair.”</em> </p><blockquote class="paw-blockquote"><p>Students would submit suggestions for verses to a student committee that would select the best ones; some verses were judged so funny that they remained unchanged for decades.</p></blockquote><p>For the math professor Solomon Lefschetz, who had a reputation for “kibitzing” at colleagues’ lectures: <em>“Here’s to Lefschetz, Solomon L., / Unpredictable as hell; / When he’s laid beneath the sod, / He’ll then begin to heckle God.”</em></p><p>For Robert Russell Wicks, the Dean of the Chapel: <em>“Here’s to Reverend Bobby Wicks, / Who knows the soul’s most inward tricks; / He teaches socialistic knowledge, / In this most capitalistic college.”</em></p><p>Imbrie, meanwhile, moved to New York City and joined his father’s business, Abbey & Imbrie, a company that manufactured fishing tackle. He became the secretary for his class, a noble service, and wrote many accounts of Princeton’s people and history. (This included writing a biography of James Collins Johnson, a former slave who had escaped captivity and, after a trial in 1843, kept his freedom and lived in Princeton for the rest of his life.)</p><p>Alums took joy in quoting the song everywhere from presidential biographies to the journal <em>Science</em>. The faculty, meanwhile, vacillated between grumbling and glee: “Getting into the Faculty Song is, to some of the faculty,” one alum wrote, “almost what making a club is to the sophomore.”</p><p>Sometime in the 1980s, the “Faculty Song” fell out of favor. 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