Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the battle for coeducation is pretty much won, vestiges of all-male days remain to haunt campus feminists. One example: the unabashedly male-chauvinist wording of Penn State's Alma Mater. The anthem's phrase "Thou didst mold us, dear old State," recently lost its refrain "Into men, into men." "When we stood at boyhood's gate" emerged unisexually as "childhood's gate." Elsewhere, however, sexism yet sounds hi full voice. At Princeton football games, for example, "her sons" still give "three cheers for Old Nassau." Princeton Recording Secretary Fred Fox says that if "sons...
...however, but to decide once and for all the location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex would be built not at Harvard - Kennedy's alma mater and his own choice for the library site - but instead, on the bleak new Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts...
...gives me great pleasure to introduce a man who is such a great ornament to the history department at my university, which is also the Ambassador's alma mater...
Several weekends ago I traveled to Cambridge to visit a dear friend, Mr. Ron Melrose, a senior at your college. On Saturday, we shared seats on the Harvard side while my alma mater's team was ground into the muddy football field. Luckily, understanding companions and their pre-planned schedule of activities allowed me to forget the indignities of defeat...
...learned a good deal about the sub rosa financing arrangements enjoyed by intelligence agencies: that the General Accounting Office, which is supposed to monitor federal spending, keeps its hands off the CIA; the CIA alumni in the Office of Management and Budget handle the purse strings of their alma mater...