Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young Heath first showed a flair for music in his early teens, when he was attending a grammar school near Broad-stairs. After six years there, he landed a coveted organ scholarship to Balliol, Oxford's most earnest college and Harold Macmillan's alma mater. Heath played the organ at chapel and conducted the choir. He majored in politics, philosophy and economics, but was torn between the law and music as a profession. In 1940 he joined the Royal Artillery as a private in the ranks, fought through four of the Six: France, Belgium, Holland and Germany...
...does not stem from any personal bias, but simply out of my unshakable belief in the philosophy of using civilized language for a civil purpose' According to McCord, college fund raisers should "act as though we were an extension of, and not simply a blunt instrument for, our alma mater...
...BIBLE SALESMAN (257 pp.)-Alma Stone-Doubleday...
Saroyan wrote this sort of ragpickers' polka, and so, in a quieter tempo, does Novelist Alma Stone. Her poor are the people of Manhattan's upper Broadway-watery-eyed men propped on their elbows in old. moneylosing bars, solitary old ladies who roost on park benches and share their tuna sandwiches with cats...
Fund-raiser, poet, friend of Harvard men, fisherman, painter, and collector of Harvardiana, David McCord '21 will retire this June after 37 years of service to his alma mater...