Word: alma
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first of the communications on the front page, a suggestion is made which is certainly worthy serious consideration. That Germany should have honored the memory of famous Harvard men when their own Alma Mater had neglected to do so in the same specific way seems almost incomprehensible. The nearest approach that we have at Harvard to the practice of Gottingen in erecting tablets inscribed with the names of famous men who have attended the University are the tablets in Memorial Hall to the memory of heroes whom our Alma Mater mourns...
...will of the late Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, gets $50,000 and the proceeds of his well-known book on the practice of surgery...
...nature of Harvard is, the University can then speak for itself. Mr. Bolles has set an admirable example to all of us. The more we can explain to outsiders the true nature and simple practical workings of the University, the more genuine service we shall be doing for our Alma Mater...
...Alma Mater, Shepard...
...article in one of the magazines; and certainly the article on "Brunswick and Bowdoin College" in the New England Magazine for December from the pen of Charles Lewis Slattery of last year's senior class reflects credit not only upon the author himself but also upon his Alma Mater. Mr. Slattery has taken old Bowdoin College and Brunswick, as he knows them in their historical past and, with skillful touches has given us vivid pictures of the old town and the famous men who have brought credit upon the college, - Longfellow, Hawthorne, President Pierce, and many others. The article...