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Annie Lisle
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"Annie Lisle" is the name of an 1857 ballad by Boston, Massachusetts songwriter H. S. Thompson and published by Oliver Ditson & Co. It is about the death of a young maiden, by what some have speculated to be tuberculosis, although the lyric does not explicitly mention tuberculosis, or "consumption" as it was called then. The song might have slipped into obscurity had the tune not been adopted by countless colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide as their respective alma mater songs.
The first college to have used the tune in a spirit song seems to have been Cornell University. In 1870, students Archibald Weeks and Wilmot Smith wrote "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" and used an adaptation of Thompson's melody. Many other colleges, almost certainly influenced by Cornell's version, have since created their own renditions. They include:
- Acadia University
- American University of Beirut
- College of William & Mary, James Southall Wilson
- Davis College
- Emory University
- Hwa Chong Institution
- Indiana University, J. T. Giles, 1893
- Lehigh University
- Lewis & Clark College
- Moravian College, J. Kenneth Pfohl, 1900
- Roanoke Bible College, Sarah P. Bondurant, 1948
- Swarthmore College
- Syracuse University, Junius W. Stevens, 1893
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- University of Alabama, Helen Vickers, 1908
- University of Georgia, J.B. Wright, Jr. (additional verse by Gail Carter Dendy, 1990)
- University of Kansas, George Penny, 1891
- University of Missouri, G.A. Wauchope, 1895
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William Starr Myers, 1897
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
- Vanderbilt University, Robert F. Vaughn, 1907
- Xavier University of Louisiana
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