Word: alma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give you, brethren, our first sentiment: Our alma mater - In grateful memory of her instructions, her sons come to-day by thousands to do her honor...
...Peabody Museum will be open to-day, for the benefit of the visiting alumni, who will thus be enabled to see what remarkable ethnological treasures their Alma Mater possesses...
...friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows but, on his return to his desk, Shakespeare bore with him a reminiscence of that sweet voice, and of that young bride, destined to become in more senses than one, the alma mater of the yet-undreamt-of College in the wilderness; who knows but that the vision of that altar and its vows was in his mind, when he wrote those words of his description of Cordelia...
Invitations have been extended to the members of the senior class to listen to Dr. Hale and Mr. Winsor in a discussion of the history of the university. Every student now in the university should feel interested to learn the history of his Alma Mater, but members of the graduating class above all others should feel called upon to make it a subject of study. All old institutions possess readable histories, and Harvard is no exception. Upon an occasion like the approaching anniversary it would seem strange to a visitor that not one perhaps in a hundred students could tell...
...Alma Mater; mature in youth, vigorous in age, illustrious always...