Word: alma
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Would not a few evening lectures concerning those "venerable associations" be welcomed by the undergraduate, and greatly increase his affection and reverence for our Alma Mater...
There is no doubt but that the greater part of us know all too little about Harvard,-and particularly about her past. Such a series of lectures as is suggested would not only "increase the affection of the undergraduate for his Alma Mater." It would give us all a better chance to learn some of the stories with which every one of us should be familiar, and ignorance of which must many times in after life prove a source of mortification and regret...
While feeling the keenest sympathy for the splendid young life at Harvard and having the firmest belief in the manliness and honor of the great majority of the students, I should nevertheless be lacking in my duty to them and to the Alma Mater were I not to express myself strongly in condemnation of an event which lately took place in Boston, flagrant in its selfishness and utter disregard of the rights of others...
...thrill of just exultation in recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...
...university boating doings. He is made to feel that he is part and parcel-as in very fact he is-of the general machinery that builds up the 'varsity, and he is given a daily opportunity of watching the crew which is to uphold the aquatic honor of his alma mater...