Far Above Cayuga's Waters

[2] Edward Abbey, in One Life at a Time, Please, mentions a campfire sing in which he contributed "the first line of the only Ivy League song that occurred to me: 'Far above Cayuga's waters .

For example, George Penny, a professor at the University of Kansas, wrote his school's alma mater by changing a few words from Cornell's song, "Far above the golden valley...".

However, in common practice, only the first two verses are sung, and they share the lines "Lift the chorus, speed it onward, loud her praises tell; / Hail to thee our Alma Mater!

Due to this symmetry, whenever only the first two verses are printed or sung, it is customary to consider lines 1–2 and 5–6 as being verses 1 and 2, respectively, and lines 3–4 and 7–8 as being a single repeated refrain:[7] The oldest known recording of the song is the Cornell University Glee Club's recording made on January 2, 1914, at the Columbia Phonograph Company on 38th Street in New York City.

The song was heard in the 1953 film Titanic, in which it is sung by Robert Wagner and Purdue University students.