Most non American Rotarians visiting American clubs generally notice one salient difference. Rotary Clubs elsewhere and especially in Britain do not sing before, during or even after meals. However, there was one notable exception in Britain. In 1921 at the Edinburgh International Convention, the first to be held in the British Isles, a report in the London 'Times' said that, "after the educational business had been disposed of, the Convention indulged in an interlude. It was suggested that after all the 'high-brow' music they had heard, the members should have a song on their own, and so the assembly joined in an American ditty called 'Old Macdonald's Farm'. The song had a loud chorus, the gathering obeying to the full the President's injunction to 'loosen up and sing'.
Robert Burns was Harris' favorite poet. He is probably best remembered throughout the world for version of the song Auld Lang Syne. This particular song was…
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