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| | Daily Celebrations ~ Katharine Lee Bates, From Sea to Shining Sea ~ July 4 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), an English professor at Wellesley College, took a summer teaching job at Colorado College in 1893. |
 | | As a gift to the American people, both Bates and Ward gave up all royalty to the song--a tribute to America's greatness and a patriotic masterpiece of spirit, praise, and prayer. |
 | | About the immediate and lasting success of her tribute, Bates said, "That the hymn has gained such a hold as it has upon our people, is clearly due to the fact that Americans are at heart idealists, with a fundamental faith in human brotherhood." |
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