Word: alma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...endeavor to abstain from all complaining that is not likely to lead to anything better than mere fault-finding. Can it not fairly be said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside of the student world. That they foster a closer college spirit and a wider university spirit there can be no doubt, and that their practical usefulness might be largely increased, if college governors and instructors would permit...
...annual dinner of the Crimson took place Friday night at Young's Hotel. A speech was made by Prof. A. S. Hill in response to the toast of "Our Alma Mater," and by Prof. Lanman and Mr. J. L. Bangs of the Acta Columbiana...
...having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry will be removed. At Cornell and other colleges where this system has been tried the results are for the better...
...Bellows had a warm interest in the Harvard Register until the untimely demise of that paper; and he contributed several articles to its columns. His interest in the Divinity School also was always active; and in many other ways he showed his concern in the prosperity of his Alma Mater and her sons. The Nation speaks of him with high praise as a citizen, and says: "He was the minister of a very small denomination, but there was no public interest which did not owe something to his untiring activity, his ready sympathy and generosity, and his remarkable powers...
...from Cambridge, rendering impossible the state of social life existing at the college of a small provincial town. However, while our enthusiasm may not be of the loud, vaunting kind, we certainly all entertain feelings of the warmest affection for the majestic old lady we are honored to call Alma Mater...