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Hullo November the 30th National day The University has three grads on in one day. Does someone have any postable memories of their own ?. Did you have to learn Latin words including Gaudy ? ALBA GU BRATH ! Scotland Till Judgement !

Even the TC graduations featured Gaudeamus igitur in the late 1960s! And we were expected to sing it.

Did you not have to learn The Gaudie before Raisin Monday on your arrival in first year and then we sang it on many occasions not least on a Saturday in the Union bar at closing time after the sing song

At Queen's, I remember singing the Gaudie as a bejant. Usually it was sung in the bar downstairs in Old Dines. Iwould love to get a recording of it to get the pronunciation right. We have recently formed a University of St Andrews Alumni Club, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) here with six members and two associate members.

I wonder if we should start a network of Morgan FP Clubs around the world. I know there are at least 2 FP's in NL, my brother and I. Maybe there are more. Bill Duncan was also here but I haven't seen him or heard of him for years.

See these websites including Mario Lanza, Andre Rieu in Heidelberg and Latin and English translations. There are also links to a vast range of versions including Latin American, East European and Scandinavian. Truly an international hymn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJGd4yZ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJGd4yZ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJGd4yZ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... o-y7YtoGYo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_rkDbf5 ... re=related
One clip explains how this was not traditionally sung formally in grand settings and graduations etc “Originally it is sung by fraternities …… down under in the cellars of the 300 year old buildings. It is celebrating the academy, the professors, it explicitly states the shortness of life and praises the beauty of the girls. The setting for a performance usually is to get madly hammered with fraternity members in the "Kneipe" (fraternity gathering), and to celebrate the Burschenherrlichkeit - as long as life allows it’”

David

Dave

The Committee is looking at ways to provide support to “Branch organisations”. Any ideas welcome, ideally before Tuesday 13 December when we next meet.

David

I suppose that's why gaudeamus was sung in "The Student Prince" - while the students were "fraternising" (AKA boozing)!
Off on a tangent - I remember visiting the bier kellar and student prison made famous in the afore mentioned film while on a trip to Heidelberg. The men in my life went off to a practice day for the German Grand Prix, leaving me on my tod in the city. I was able to use my school German and had a great day.

Forgot Here at St.Andrews the Gaudy is only sung as the academic procession enters. The reasoning given is that after the degree having been conferred they are no longer students so not as they leave the Younger hall.

Hi Ian, I see you are ....or were online. Just wondering if you had been in contact with the St A's Alumni Club in China.

I did not know there was one Dave D (got the right Dave this time) Do you have a contact for them?

Hi Ian, did you see my previous note on this subject?

The last contact I can find is for Giselle Han - hgiselle@ceibs.edu and that was in my 2009 Chronicle.

Thanks Dave I have sent an e-mail

Ian, how many Morgan FP's do reckon graduated at the same ceremony as you and I in 1966? Maybe I should have put this in the Quiz topic

Re The words for Gaudeamus Igitur.
Gaudeamus Igitur, Juvenes dum Sumus
Vita Nostra Brevis est Brevi finietur ,Post Jocundam Juventutum
Post molestam senectutem, Nos habebit humus, Nos habebebit Humus
That is as much as I can remember from my days at Annadale Grammar school for boys in Belfast N.I.
which preceeded my transfer to Morgan.

Hamish