Word: alma
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they go, and whatever they do, each has his part of the responsibility for maintaining the good name of Harvard. The test of the worth of a college is ultimately the men whom it sends out into the world. If they are worthy, the credit is given to their Alma Mater; and the blame for their shortcomings falls on her as well. Popular judgment of Harvard is not based on the testimony of a catalogue or of descriptive pamphlets; her fame rests, and must always rest, with the men who bear witness by their lives to the value...
...observed. Whenever and wherever "Fair Harvard" is sung in a gathering of Harvard men, it should be sung in chorus of all present. The noble song of the College will be dearer to the students when they are thus familiar with it, and will quicken their love for Alma Mater as it does not now when it seems to belong to the Glee Club rather than to the whole College...
...their number greatly reduced. To the many who are eager for it, knowledge of the past of the College promises now to be made easy of attainment. With its spread among the undergraduates is sure to come a greater intensity in the sentiment which Harvard men feel for their Alma Mater...
...word will certainly not be out of place this morning in expression of the appreciation which the University feels of the faithful devotion to their work in the interests of class and Alma Mater which causes so many of our athletes to remain in active training during the coming vacation, which is to bring to other members of the University much welcomed rest and recreation. We believe that this self-imposed discipline which is so common as to seem at times almost commonplace, is one of the most useful and moral influences of the University life, and in its effects...
...Athletic News of March 18, published at Manchester, England, the department headed "Oxford and Cambridge Echoes," and signed "Alma Mater," includes the following...