Not all were in agreement a year later, though, when the Observer reported that the Student’s Union was set choose the official college song, deliberating between Olsson’s “Victory Song” and the “Blue and Gold.” One week later, the paper reported that the Student’s Union failed to designate an official song, leaving the decision “until both songs had been tried on the football field with band accompaniment.” The same issue carried an editorial imploring the student body to learn all the Augustana songs, stating that they “are as essential a part of college life and education as are the daily lessons” (Sept. In January 1923, the Observer again called for new songs, noting that one existing song was “set to too hard a score for the musically impoverished,” another was “not original,” and a third “savors of Civil War days and is therefore offensive to the South.”Īlbert Olsson’s “Victory Song” was published in the fall of 1923, with the Observer exclaiming “Augustana will at last have a song which it can really call its own” (Nov. Naturally, we desire more cheers and melodies…Augie never rejects a good yell or snappy song…” (Nov. At least eight college songs had been printed by the time the Observer called for even more spirit in 1922, stating:Īugustana has good songs and yells, but there are many who deplore the fact that there are not more of them. These five college songs, however, did not include the three noted above. 21, 1921, when the Observer published five college songs. The 1910 Jubilee album published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Augustana College and Theological Seminary reprinted the same three college songs as the 1905 Class Annual, and all seemed well on the college song front until Oct. And if that wasn’t rousing enough, an additional song appeared in the 1905 Class Annual to the melody of “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching,” which started: “Augustana on the hill!/Sing her praises with a will!” with a chorus of: “Hip, hip, hip, hurrah for yellow!/Hip, hip, hip, hurrah for blue!/They're the colors of the sky,/Of the sun and stars on high.”

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