Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaily between bites of roast beef. His wife, happy too, leaned over and planted a light kiss on Dwight Eisenhower's right cheek for no special reason at all. Ike, like thousands of other old grads this week, was making that American pilgrimage, a homecoming to his alma mater. The occasion: an informal reunion of the class...
...since 1924 had Iowa beaten Michigan. Having built an undergraduate career by winning games for Michigan, Iowa Coach Forest Evashevski had never yet built a team that could down his alma mater. This time the Hawkeyes had a real chance: they had the beef; they had the brains; and the bruising combination seemed enough to wear the Wolverines down. By the end of the first half they were behind, 21-7, but they had given Michigan an awful mauling...
...keeping with attitudes of mind learned at Harvard, these essays are not emotion-laden "old alma mater" type plaints. They are some times nostalgic, but not for "the night we tore the Yale goalposts down" or for the good-natured camaraderie of their youth. Most represent a serious attempt to tell what they gained from Harvard, although for some, such as Dos Passos, the gain was not overly great: "It took me twenty years to discover that I did learn something at Harvard after all. Cambridge wasn't such a backwater as I'd thought...
...young gentlemen in a manly atmosphere free of the influence of mothers and nannies. Last week, in similar fashion, Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip took their eight-year-old son Charles by the hand and delivered him over to Headmaster Peter Beck at Philip's own alma mater, Cheam, one of England's oldest and most tradition-encrusted preparatory schools...
...been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy, and his most outrageous hunches still have a habit of paying off. Last year he fired the touchdown pass that put Minnesota in front of his former alma mater; he scored twice against Illinois, twice more against Michigan to win back the five gallon Little Brown Jug. Last week against Washington he completed four passes and carried the ball himself for only 38 yds., but before the second team took over, his deft ball-handling had engineered four...