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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darshanarc" data-source="post: 2126069" data-attributes="member: 15243">    COLLEGE SONG       School of our fathersThy spirit first to life awokeIn eighteen hundred and thirty fiveBeneath the sway of Marsh and BoakeThenceforth did lanka's learning thrive RefrainSchool where our fathers learnt the way before usLearnt of books and learnt of men, through we will do the sameTrue to our watchword "Disce Aut Discade"We will learn of of books and men, and learn to play the game Within thy shade our fathers trodThe path that leads to man's estate;They have repaid the debt they owed;They kept thy fame inviolate. RefrainAnd we their loyal sons now bearThe torch, with hearts as sound as oak;Our lusty throats now raise a cheerFor Hartely, Harward, Marsh and Boake. History - College SongRoyal College the oldest public school in Sri Lanka Lagged behind other Colleges without a college song until Principal H.L.Reed composed and set to music the SCHOOL OF OUR FATHERS in the Third term of 1927. The music was later revised by S. Schmid.In the following year when Royal College won the MEADEN SHIELD in the schools singing compition for the 8th year in succession SCHOOL OF OUR FATHERS presented at the competition was a 'hit tune'. Much credit for the magnificent performance of the college choir goes to Mrs. H.L. Reed who was assisted by R.C. Edwards. The college song made its public debut on 13th July 1928.A college song provides inspiration, a fervour and attachment to one's old college. To the old boys its nostalgia, of the years that were, the happy carefree boyhood days. To the young 'Uns' who now bear the torch the college song is something for every conceivable occasion. They sing themselves hoarse. They sing with pride-their own "anthem". One has to witness them rendering the college song with gusto-there's happiness written on their faces.In 1968, a shorter version of the college song in Sinhala was again composed on the instructions of the Principal by the same combination which composed the first song Messrs W.A. Wickramasena and S.J.F. Dissanayake.</blockquote>

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