Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revision advocates do adopt Schram's attitude, and if the Class of 1977 doesn't take up where this year's freshmen leave off, the "early semester" plan may disappear as quickly as it became an issue. And if the traditional calendar remains intact, Harvard alumni returning to their alma mater in the future will be assured that at least one bridge still remains to the good old days...
...center of all this controversy, and, some say, partly the cause of it, is President James P. Dixon (Antioch, '39; Harvard Medical School, '43), who was serving as Philadelphia's commissioner of health when named to head his alma mater in 1959. Usually chomping on a half-smoked cigar that sprinkles ashes down his rumpled blue polo shirt, Dixon talks in convoluted jargon that has earned him the nickname "Dim Jixon." Students still talk about his speech in 1969 comparing the campus to a well-balanced fishbowl populated with guppies, goldfish and piranhas. "For days," says...
Kissinger has withstood the bombing and the blood for over four years now, and his admirers were beginning to boast that he was made of sterner stuff than mighty Mac. Faced by limitless suffering, the Harvard man remained impassive. Why shouldn't his alma mater be proud of him? Why shouldn't he be welcomed back to Lowell Lec and the CFIA...
Bennett said a week ago that his firm charged the University so little "in part out of loyalty to our alma mater and in part as a charitable contribution...
Settled in a $7.20-a-week cottage, W.H. Auden called his old college town "sheer hell." Only four months ago, the 65-year-old poet escaped from New York to spend his last years quietly at his Oxford alma mater. Imagine his surprise to find the town of Oxford "five times as crowded and the noise of the traffic six times louder." And that isn't all. Auden recently had $117 stolen from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden...