Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME reported that one Dave Hatcher said that he preferred Brown to Princeton, as he thought that Princeton is too much of a party school. We at Brown will not sit idle while aspersions are cast at our alma mater. While Brown certainly will give him a better education, it should not go unsaid that if anyone in the Ivy League throws parties, Brown throws them bigger and better. RICHARD R. WANDMACHER Providence...
Many Yalemen attribute their collections more to a healthy inheritance than to a love of art fostered by their alma mater. Says Averell Harriman, '13: "My interest in painting was not born at Yale. I was exposed to good art all my life." Harriman acquired Henri Rousseau's Rendezvous dans la Foret from a dealer in Paris in 1935; the dealer had bought it from a washerwoman to whom Rousseau had given the painting in payment for her services. Several alumni have lent a number of works to the show; Industrialist Stephen C. Clark, '03, donated...
Before the game, Nixon's entourage drove out to the rolling campus of Stanford University (enrollment: 8,760), Herbert Hoover's alma mater in Palo Alto. Dozens trailed after him into the auditorium, where 1,700 jammed the seats and another 1,000 overflowed out on the steps and lawn. The place exploded in cheers as he strode onstage. At the question period he invited barbed ones ("As I said to Khrushchev in Moscow, I've been insulted by experts-so go right ahead"), and got one. Could a man who used innuendoes about political opponents provide...
...pleading that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda found that in Alma Alta the director of a state livestock farm had placed a large roll of absorbent cotton on the back seat of his car, and declared that it was a Mobile Veterinary Laboratory. The Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences had not yet handed over a single one of the dozens of cars...
That was not all. Investor Stillings, whose first job paid him $5.60 a week, is now possibly worth $500,000, and at his death virtually all of it will go to his alma mater. His purpose: to leave a memorial to his farmer father, who helped him through the university at great sacrifice...