"Carissima" is the alma mater of

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

, words and music by M. W. Stryker in 1872. After Hamilton became a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

institution in 1978, the original lyrics of the song were updated to reflect the fact that not every student was male.

References

External links

Prof. Pellman's "Carissima" tribute page
Hamilton College (New York) 1872 songs

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