Academic Festival Overture - boy, does that ever bring back the memories. Back when I was a young sprout (but after my military time), I attended Washington University ("in Saint Louis", as the sports folks always say).
Although I never took a music course while enrolled there, I played both in all of the shows (including three in their just constructed, spectacular, 'all of the outlets in the orchestra pit worked', state of the art theater) as well as with the university's orchestra, in the usual bass clarinet, extra clarinet, "Can you handle the contra-bassoon part on Beethoven's Ninth?" duty.
(At the same time, I was also doing shows at one of the local community colleges and playing commercial stuff. I was one busy little beaver, I tells ya...)
One thing that was played by the orchestra for every graduation at Washington U (at least while I was there) was Academic Festival Overture. Although rehearsing it got kind of old, I always liked the part where it rounded off into "Guadiamus igiture". To this day, when I hear that in a recording, it brings back goosebumps.
Good old Wash. U. was the school with the two bassett horns (one of which was minus a neck and the massive old Heckel straight contra-bassoon. They were wealthy enough to afford just about anything, although I never eyeballed their saxophone collection - everyone that played there brought their own.
They didn't have a single decent bass clarinet out of the five or so in the instrument room, though...