Porter ’58, credited him with even wider influence. Another Yale singer of the era, Edward C. The person with the best claim to having started Yale's singing tradition is Richard Willis, Class of 1841, probably the first professional musicologist to graduate from Yale.
The Yale Alumni Chorus, a post-graduate singing group founded in 1998, has 450 active members. There are currently at least 15 undergraduate singing groups. The first college songbook in the United States was Songs of Yale (1853), and Yale College still has a particularly strong tradition of avocational a cappella.
"Other Institutions have not that exuberance of good feeling that prompts the Yalensian to vent in quaint, and sometimes uncouth rhymes, the glee of the heart." "No College in the country has such a variety of songs as we," boasted the Yale Literary Magazine in 1855. Manuscripts & Archives Sheet music of the best-known student song in Europe.
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