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The "Alma Mater" is the official song of the University of Chicago, a private research university located in Chicago, Illinois. The lyrics to the song were written in 1894 by Edwin M. Lewis, an Assistant in Rhetoric, for the university's men's glee club, who had decided the day before their first performance that they needed to include a school song. The lyrics were then set to the tune of the University of Rochester's school song, also named "Alma Mater". Lewis would later describe the second line of the first stanza as "the worst in the English language."

In 1958, the university changed the lyrics, which originally only referenced men, to include both men and woman, to reflect that the university had always been co-educational.

https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/help-wanted-u-of-c-seeks-new-song/

Lyrics
"Today we gladly sing the praise

Of her whose daughters and whose sons

Now loyal voices proudly raise

To bless her with our benisons.

Of all fair mothers fairest she,

Most wise of all that wisest be,

Most true of all the true say we,

Is our dear Alma Mater"