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Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595

{P} 434.381.6100

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The Sweet Briar Promise outlines our distinctive approach for providing meaningful, enduring education for women. It includes:

Student Traditions

Singing

Singing is a way of life at Sweet Briar. Often, our women are so cheerful or excited that only a song will do. From Step Singing to the Bum Chums' "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!", you'll regularly hear our women's voices echoing through the Quad. You don't have to be the next American Idol, just be willing to sing along.

To praise their Sweet Briar sisters, students may sing:

"Holla, Holla"

Here's to the (seniors, first-years, etc.), Holla, Holla, Holla,
Nothing that you cannot do!
Here's to the (seniors, first-years, etc.), Holla, Holla, Holla,
Nothing that you cannot do!
Work for the good and work for the right
Always doing somethingand doing it right, so
Here's to the (seniors, first-years, etc.), Holla, Holla, Holla,
Nothing that you cannot do!

At Lantern Bearing or a class reunion, students may sing:

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The Sweet Briar Song
(As sung by the Sweet Tones)

Sweet Briar, Sweet Briar, flower fair,
The rose that on your crest you wear
Shall never fade, but always bear
Thy beauty, O Sweet Briar!

Sweet Briar, Sweet Briar, thy columns white
Shine on thy hills a beacon light
Of truth, to burn with radiance bright
Forever, O Sweet Briar!

Sweet Briar, Sweet Briar, we sing to thee.
May thy foundations ever be
Strong as thy hills, they purity
That of thy rose, Sweet Briar!