History

Harvard has several fight songs, the most played of which, especially at football games, are "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" and "Harvardiana. Harvardiana was written by classmates, R.G. Williams and S.B. Steel (Class of 1911). The song uses the name "Eli" to refer to athletic rival Yale University.

Sanger Bright Steel, shortly following the death of his young wife to typhoid fever, died on May 12, 1927 as the result of a leap from the fifteenth floor of the Hotel McAlpin in New York.