Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grads of Harvard, both distinguished in the world of music, popped up with pooled talents as the creators of two new songs for their alma mater. Musicomedy Librettist Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner ('40) and Master-of-Most-Musical-Trades Leonard Bernstein ('39) had cooked up a lugubrious ("Harvard! Harvard! Onward go . . .") Dedication and a satirical, possibly soulful, ditty titled The Lonely Men of Harvard. Excerpt from the latter...
...good fortune he attributes solely to the perception of the British teenager, who has embraced rock 'n' roll slang as enthusiastically as he has the music. An Oxonian departing the university has been overheard saying goodbye to his dean in the words: "See you later, alma mater...
...seniors of Northwestern University decided upon a new kind of senior-class gift for their alma mater: a plan to raise $4,000 to boost faculty salaries during the coming year. Wrote Class President Walter W. Doren in the Daily Northwestern: "The campuses of America are filled with benches, gates, clocks and similar senior-class gifts which have little or nothing to do with higher education's actual needs. Our class does not want to memorialize itself with a plaque. We wish instead to make a meaningful contribution to tomorrow...
...Charles River, a group of Harvard Alumni from the Boston area made the smalle beginninges of the Harvard Club of Boston. This was more than forty years after New York alumni, over 200 miles from the home college, had first assembled to strengthen the silver cord to their Alma Mater...
...would take his son in. In Washington, D.C., the wife of a State Department official is even planning to move to France so that her two sons can learn French and German and thus have an advantage when the time for college comes. One Princeton alumnus hounded his alma mater to take in his boy, even though he knew the boy would probably flunk. The father's argument: unless his son got in, he wouldn't be eligible for the Princeton Club of New York...