[1] Composed by Murray Taylor and lyrics by A. Putnam of Harvard College's class of 1918, it is among the fight songs performed by the Harvard Glee Club at its annual joint concert with the Yale Glee Club the night before the annual Harvard-Yale football game, as well as at the game itself.
It is also played or sung at other athletic meets or other intercollegiate contests, usually by the Harvard University Band.
The football team sings it after wins, and new players are required to memorize it in both English and dog Latin.
In the 2018 film On the Basis of Sex, which portrays the life and early cases of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "Ten Thousand Men" plays as Ginsburg begins the first day of classes as one of only nine women among five hundred incoming Harvard Law School students.
Other verses have lewd dog Latin lyrics (obscured by loud drumming), or just the syllable la repeated over and over.