half a century later. Ultimately, president David Oxtoby decided to retain the song but to stop singing it at convocation and commencement. Since then, it has largely disappeared from living memory among current students. Another college song, "Torchbearers", was written in 1896 by Francis Fulkerson (class of 1896) and professor Arthur Bissell, inspired by a Cahuilla festival that professor Frank Brackett and David Barrows (class of 1894) had attended. Originally titled "Ghost Dance", its name was changed and lyrics re-written by professor Ramsay Harris in 1930. In 1932, the Pomona men's glee club won the first and only National Glee Club Championship with their performance of the song. In 2009, its lyrics were modified to remove culturally appropriative aspects, but lingering concerns led to its retirement from active repertoire in 2015, and it is likewise unrecognized by most current students. Several other less well-known Pomona songs continue to be sung by the college's choral program. Banner springs Every class at Pomona creates its own class banner. In this longstanding tradition, the first-year class would present, or "spring", its banner in a public forum in which it could be seen by the majority of the student body, and then try to whisk it away to the Ghosts, a mentor group organization, before the second-years could capture it. The Ghosts would then judge whether or not the banner spring was legitimate according to a complicated set of rules. Notable banner springs occurred at the Fox Theater in Pomona (1932) and in front of a train carrying fans returning from a football game (1949). The 1949 spring was preceded by an attempt made from a helicopter, which was declared illegitimate because the banner could not be presented from a moving vehicle. Oxy bonfire During the era when Pomona's primary athletic rival was the Occidental Tigers, a bonfire and rally was held prior to the homecoming football game with the college, traditionally assembled by first-year men. A corresponding "Pomona bonfire" at Occidental remains extant. Pole Rush The annual Pole Rush, a competition between first-years and second-years, began shortly after Pomona was founded and was last held in 1926. It was a brawl in which men from both classes attempted to be the first to get their class's colors to the top of a pole. Sophomore Arch The Clark III dormitory, completed in 1930, includes a short tunnel connecting Sixth St. to Bixby Plaza. For