 The humor of "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" revolves around the supposedly refined and gentlemanly nature of Harvard athletes.As it appears on "Tom Lehrer Revisited", a live album, it is preceded by banter almost as long as the song itself.In talking to his audience, Lehrer explains that he wanted to create a college fight song different from those performed, as he says with a hypercorrective use of a Latin plural for a common English word, "in comparable "stadia"."