Word: alma
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Died. Clarence E. Lovejoy, 79, author of the popular Lovejoy's College Guide, which has helped countless high school students choose a college; in Red Bank, N.J. Variously-and sometimes simultaneously-a sports reporter for the New York Times, army officer, professor and alumni secretary for his alma mater, Columbia University, Lovejoy also wrote prep-school and career and vocational-school guides. First published in 1940 with the backing of Lovejoy's college classmate, Publisher M. Lincoln Schuster, the College Guide has remained a Simon & Schuster bestseller through twelve revisions...
Many reviewers have panned the movie, but Catholic spokesmen are divided on its worth. Father Edmund Ryan, executive vice president of Georgetown, Blatty's alma mater, is pleased that Jesuit priests, who are the exorcists and their colleagues in the movie, are sympathetically portrayed. "I don't think it is a religious film," says Ryan, but he does think it will produce "a great deal of thought," especially about the battle between good and evil that the demonic encounter portrays. "There is probably more debate right now about the devil than at any time since Rosemary...
Woody Hayes and former Chicago Bear Star Gale Sayers (representing his alma mater Kansas) both visited Summit, N.J., recently-and for good reason. Summit is the home town of Running Back Willie Wilson, one of the East Coast's brightest high school football stars. The two football celebrities were only a part of a 40-man invasion force that, according to Wilson's coach Howie Anderson, lined up "like vacuum cleaner salesmen" to see Wilson...
Notestein came to Radcliffe from Smith College, her alma mater, where she was dean. Born on Dec. 11, 1876, she graduated from Smith in 1897, received her M.A. in English at Columbia in 1899 and from there went to the University of Minnesota as an instructor in English and the school's first dean of women...
Last Thursday only our cheerleaders were in form. And as City fumbled away an early drive, the pattern of the last four years prevailed. Poly's squad, an amalgam of working class whites and northwest Baltimore blacks, stomped my alma mater...