Abbotsford Club Abbotsford Club The Abbotsford Club was a text publication society founded in Edinburgh in 1833 or 1834. This was the year after the death of Sir Walter Scott, whose residence of Abbotsford House gave the society its name, and whose literature the club's publications sought to illuminate. The club was modelled on the Roxburghe Club, of which Scott himself had been a member, as well as the Bannatyne Club, which was founded by Scott, and the Glasgow-centred Maitland Club. The founder and first secretary of the club was William Barclay Turnbull, a young Edinburgh lawyer. The stated objective of the
On the Banks of the Old Raritan song, or "alma mater". Fuller wrote the lyrics in two hours setting them to the tune of a popular melody "On the Banks of the Old Dundee." According to a later interview with the "Rutgers Alumni Monthly", Fuller stated he chose "On the Banks of the Old Dundee" as the song "immediately struck me that the air of that song had the right melody and the stirring and martial swing for an effective college song." "On the Banks of the Old Raritan" and thirteen other Rutgers songs appeared in the second edition of the "Carmina Collegensia", published in 1876. It