Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such teams as Springfield, New Hampshire, Dartmouth, Yale, M.I.T., and Toronto. But gradually these schools began to give up the sport--one of them because the Crimson defeated it so humiliatingly--an Lamar had to schedule such teams as Princeton, Pennsylvania, Army, and the University of Virginia, his alma mater...
...world's South Asian bastion. ¶ Pakistan's 13-division army, re-equipped, could hold the Khyber Pass. ¶ From Pakistan's air bases, particularly the two great British-built airfields near Karachi, the U.S. Air Force would be within jet-bomber range of the Karaganda-Alma Ata refuge of Soviet industry, far beyond the Ural Mountains. ¶ A pact between the U.S. and Pakistan might spur other Moslem nations to join the long-stalled Middle East Defense Organization, and might even serve as its nucleus...
...Higginson--sponsor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Memorial Hall--gave to his alma mater the broad swamps across the Charles that are new occupied by the Business School and the athletic plant, Soldiers' Field...
...right now, Columbia is still searching for a stronger, more reliable program that will strengthen the whole admissions system. A large fault of the weakness can be attributed to the alumni; compared to the old Princetons, Harvards and Yales, they lack tub-thumping spirit for the alma mater. The result is the college for the most part finds itself doing too much of the contact work, and has no strong organization outside of the immediate New York area...
Since Harvard is the oldest, richest and in most ways best on American universities, inevitably it has the biggest literature. Perhaps too big, for the average Harvard man is not the type to go rummaging through several hundred volumes is search of material about his alma mater. Some of the best tidbits have been buried in otherwise dull reports or hidden as episodes in novels, waiting for someone to disinter them and compile an anthology...