Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same breath it speaks of Harvard as the "plushiest" university in the "ultra-snooty Ivy League" and as the center of widespread Communist infiltration. "Times have changed in Cambridge," says Rushmore, "and the worried looks on the faces of old alumni who proudly send Sonny Boy off to alma mater is all too apparent. What's bothering the erstwhile proud parents isn't Junior's grades as much as it is the type of Marx made by his professors...
Marquette University, alma mater of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), has offered protection to members of the College debate team who will oppose the Senator's policies in a debate at Milwaukee April...
...came to the University after editing the Atlantic Monthly. Previously, he had been professor of English at Williams, his alma, mater, and Princeton...
...chance to get into the forefront of medical progress by joining forces when other medical centers began to be set up (e.g., Manhattan's pace-making Columbia-Presbyterian). Yale Graduate Harvey Gushing, later one of the world's most famed neurosurgeons, refused an appointment from his alma mater in 1906 because he thought the school was in the doldrums and would not get out until it teamed up with the hospital...
Last week, as he told his story, Carroll said that he had hit just about every top Eastern campus but one: his own alma mater. There were Villanova and Cornell, as well as Harvard, Yale, Brown and Pennsylvania. At some time or other, Carroll even ventured as far west as Chicago. "How about Princeton?" asked one of the detectives. "Ah. Princeton." sighed Eugene Carroll. "One of my favorites...