University hymn / words and music by Horace Melvyn Estabrooke. [1908?]

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University hymn / words and music by Horace Melvyn Estabrooke. [1908?]

The collection, a mounted and framed collage, includes the original score and lyrics of the university hymn, both written by Horace Estabrooke, as well as a printed copy, a photograph of Estabrooke, and brief biographical and presentation summaries. Also included in the collection are a manuscript and typescript copy of the hymn from an unknown source.

1 picture ; 34 x 83 cm. + 1 folder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7324199

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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University of Maine

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The University of Maine saw approximately 1,000 students and alumni serve in World War I and 3,900 serve in World War II. Both wars had a strong effect on the university and its students; the desire to honor those who had served and to memorialize those who had died led to various activities on campus. After the end of World War I, funds were raised to erect the Memorial Gymnasium and Armory and after World War II, those who had died were honored in a volume titled "University of Maine, World Wa...

Estabrooke, Horace M., 1849-1908.

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Horace Melvyn Estabrooke was born in 1849 in Linneus, Maine. He was a member of the class of 1876 at the University of Maine, received an M.S. from Maine in 1884 and an M.A. from Bowdoin College in 1891. He was a professor of rhetoric and modern languages at the University of Maine from 1891-1895 and a professor of English there from 1895 to 1908. He married Kate A. Clark in 1880. Horace Estabrooke died in 1908. From the description of University hymn / words and music by Horace Melv...