Word: alma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the senior class at Columbia propose to expend between $800 and $1200 for books upon one subject, and present them to their Alma Mater as a class memorial...
...perfect liberty to attend Chapel and join in a worship which Dr. Hale declares, for form as observed in Appleton Chapel, has not its superior upon the face of the earth. Every member of the University should feel called upon to see to it that the methods of his Alma Mater shall prove successful. This appeal, however, is directed more particularly to the members of the Law School. They, many of them at least, live among us and enjoy all the privileges which are open to the members of the college, the only reason why they do not attend Chapel...
...Never in the history of Cambridge has any single event brought together such eminent men leaders in statesmanship, oratory, learning and science, as those who assembled last Monday at the alumni dinner held at Memorial Hall. That many of the most prominent there look to Harvard as their Alma Mater, is a record of which Harvard is proud, and justly...
...address by James Russell Lowell, a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes - what greater literary treat could be offered to any audience, even one more cultured than that which assembled yesterday in Sanders Theatre? What could be more fitting, too, than that at the birthday of festivities of the Alma Mater, the two most famous of her living sons should thus lend their aid in celebrating the natal day? We are at a loss when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius...
...every period of her history the college has been a true person, a very alma mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does...