STUDENT'S SONG WINS QM CORPS ACCEPTANCE

A second-year student at the Business School, E. Wayne Tyler, Jr., has assured Harvard of Tin Pan Alley immortality following the acceptance of his tune, "The Fighting Quartermaster Corps," as an official song for the unit for the duration of the War.

Cadet Captain Tyler, a resident of Richmond, Virginia, and a graduate of the University of Richmond, wrote the song last month, and it was introduced by Patsy Garrett, Tyler's date, a few weekends ago at a party held for nearly 300 Quartermaster cadets in Morris Hall.

Unanimously Voted Sweetheart

Miss Garrett, also a resident of Richmond, is feature vocalist with Fred Waring's orchestra. The students have unanimously voted her the imposing title of "new sweetheart of the Quartermaster Battalion of the Harvard Business School" as a result of her efforts in putting the song across.

At the present time, Fred Waring is hard at work making a special arrangement of the tune and will probably play it over the radio for the first time on the Chesterfield program within the next fortnight.

Major-General Accepts Song

Tyler had a recording made at the Business School when Patsy Garrett presented the song for the first time before an audience which included Dean Donham, Colonel Philip Hayes, and Major Morton Smith. Immediately sending the recording to Washington, he received the following letter from Major-General Edmund B. Gregory:

"Dear Cadet Tyler:

"I have just listened with much pleasure to your recording of "The Fighting Quartermaster Corps." I think it is an excellent song, and I hope it enjoys much success. I thoroughly approve of its public use."

The song, which has its own musical score, runs as follows:

I

"From the shell fire of the battleground

To the sheltered shores of home,

From the peaceful blue of sunny skies

To the depths of Davy Jones,

We're the boys who help the fighting Yanks

Sink the flags of Freedom's foes.

And when the bugles blow, and we've won the wholedamn show,

Thank the fighting Quartermaster Corps."

II

"Now the Stars and Stripes are flying high

O'er the lands of Uncle Sam,

And the Yanks have raised their battle cry

To the hills of far Bataan.

We'll get the goods for victory,

See the screaming eagle soary

And the Axis now will see just how tough our boys can be

In the fighting Quartermaster Corps.