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Per the citation needed on the alma mater in this revision, there is at least one source that confirms that "Virginia Hail, All Hail" is the University's alma mater:
"Traditions". VirginiaSports.com. Retrieved 2009-04-20. In 1923, the college newspaper, College Topics, held a contest to choose an official alma mater and fight song. John Albert Morrow, Class of '23, won the alma mater contest with "Virginia, Hail All Hail," while "The Cavalier Song," written by Lawrence Haywood Lee, Jr., Class of '24, with music by Fulton Lewis, Jr., Class of '25, was chosen the best fight song. Although both songs failed to become part of University tradition, "The Cavalier Song" inspired the nickname "Cavaliers."
I am looking for a more definitive/reliable source, but unless I find a different alma mater that postdates 1923 this reference can be used to support the point in the main article.
I started simply to restore the version from July 2018, because the blanking was inappropriate (right? even if it's not a current practice, it's cited and historically valid info). The restoration in the version prior to this left out the citations. At second thought, I tried to clean up the page a bit along with putting stuff back the way it was. I'm hoping I got this all right. - B.S. Lawrence ( talk) 16:54, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
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Per the citation needed on the alma mater in this revision, there is at least one source that confirms that "Virginia Hail, All Hail" is the University's alma mater:
"Traditions". VirginiaSports.com. Retrieved 2009-04-20. In 1923, the college newspaper, College Topics, held a contest to choose an official alma mater and fight song. John Albert Morrow, Class of '23, won the alma mater contest with "Virginia, Hail All Hail," while "The Cavalier Song," written by Lawrence Haywood Lee, Jr., Class of '24, with music by Fulton Lewis, Jr., Class of '25, was chosen the best fight song. Although both songs failed to become part of University tradition, "The Cavalier Song" inspired the nickname "Cavaliers."
I am looking for a more definitive/reliable source, but unless I find a different alma mater that postdates 1923 this reference can be used to support the point in the main article.
I started simply to restore the version from July 2018, because the blanking was inappropriate (right? even if it's not a current practice, it's cited and historically valid info). The restoration in the version prior to this left out the citations. At second thought, I tried to clean up the page a bit along with putting stuff back the way it was. I'm hoping I got this all right. - B.S. Lawrence ( talk) 16:54, 25 November 2018 (UTC)