Word: alma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possible, to take the same step. The interest in Dr. Waldstein's work, as from time to time reported in this country, has always been very lively. As an American scholar his achievements in classical archaeology have stimulated a pride in his work that is not confined to his alma mater, but is felt equally here at Harvard, where of late years the study of his subject has received such an impetus from the efforts of Professors Norton and White...
...than those practised in country colleges. City students may drink more, and occasionally gamble; but they never give the Professors a charivari, or attack the President with bad eggs, or conspire against the college authorities and get expelled in a body. They have more affection and respect for their Alma Mater-more esprit de corps-more urbane manners. Students however, are not a class suigeneris. They are what their instincts and surroundings make them. An educated gentlemen is apt to be a gentleman even though he be a student; and being a student doesn't prevent him from being...
...await the next number of the Nation with interest, feeling sure that the angry replies will be numerous. The subject of the Yale societies is a very troublesome one just at present. Frame time to time, we hear of some distinguished graduate who attacks these societies of his alma mater and who ridicules the customs to which they give rise. We, at Harvard, have long made a standing joke of the air of mystery which attaches to all the numerous pins which decorate the waistcoats of our Yale friends. And now the cry of reform is raised by an undergraduate...
...remains entirely without the province of the debate. Our four great universities, with their many departments and multifarious courses of study, offer a field where each one can settle for himself the pros and cons of the Adams controversy and lay out his course accordingly. To Harvard, Mr. Adams' alma mater, with its complicated elective system, his strictures are least of all applicable today...
Judge Jason Downes, Dartmouth, '38, has left $10,000 to his Alma Maler...