One hundred years ago two Penn freshmen got together in a Quadrangle dorm room and wrote the music and lyrics to a song they named “Fight On, Pennsylvania.” The University’s official fight song became a tradition at football games, and today is played thousands of times a year. Read more: https://bit.ly/2WSnTN2 | University of Pennsylvania

Penn State Traditions 101 Did you know the Penn State Alma Mater made its debut at the June 1901 alumni dinner during Commencement Week? After it was sung, Gov. James Beaver, president of the Board of Trustees, stood and proclaimed it “the official song of Penn State.” That year, Fred Lewis Pattee, then a professor at the college, had recognized the institution’s lack of a “distinctly State College song,” stating that, “Without a college song there can be no real nucleus for sentiment, there can