Word: alma
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mostly from the lower classes, were noticed to disregard utterly this pledge and the mass meeting was called to condemn their dishonesty. A number of students spoke on the question and the general sentiment seemed to be that men who were capable of degrading the fame of their alma mater to such a degree had no right to remain in college. A committee was selected whose duty it is to call all such men up before it and condemn them. The committee decided that the highest punishment, which would be inflicted would consist in forcing the guilty man to take...
...This does not mean merely that he graduated in '55, that class which contains such other names as Alexander Agassiz, Robert Treat Paine and Theodore Lyman. His interest in his university did not end at graduation, but ever since, he has not only kept a warm place for his Alma Mater in his great heart, but by his efforts has contributed, and contributed largely to the advancement of Harvard manliness. His affection for his class and college is shown in this short extract from a characteristic note written to his class secretary, " I shall certainly be at commencement, and shall...
...mean to say that the game should be restricted, but that other teams should gain their knowledge through contests on the field or through their own inventions, but not by a purchase from a Yale graduate of what has been entrusted to him for the benefit of his alma mater. Our victories on the water have been attributed to the peculiarities of a stroke which has been developed by long and faithful study of rowing and also to the superior knowledge of our coaches. No one claims that Yale, which is smaller in number than Harvard, has better material...
...books, or money to provide for the furthering of education. These are advantages which have been left by the generosity of former generations of men who have given what they had unquestioningly to the coming set of young men of whom they knew nothing. They gave it to their Alma Mater as a token of their appreciation of the priceless gifts they had received from her hands, and in a knowledge that what they gave would help some unknown person in the future over the same difficulties over which they themselves had been helped. One cannot go through Harvard with...
...participants to refrain from settling private feuds at this time. Surely it would be better to be able to look back at the last occasion on which the class meet together as undergraduates as one where every man showed that he had laid to heart the lessons of his Alma Mater than as one where the men retrograded to the schoolboy manners of four years...