Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because they're just waiting for someone to give them the spark." Mann's inspiration was more personal. "I'm a hamburger," he confesses. "My greatest joy in the world is to sit home on a Sunday afternoon, listen to a patriotic album or album of alma mater songs, maybe have a drink and just...
What they know is that Gardner has already turned down several university presidencies equally as prestigious as Harvard's. His rejection of the presidency of Stanford, his alma mater, and a chance to work in the same state where his children are now living signaled his general coolness to the idea. And his new Washington project which he just started with the Urban Coalition is expected to tie him down there for at least two years...
...represents not only working-class voters but also 200,000 students on 34 campuses in the Boston area?the most collegiate district in Congress. The Johnson Administration got his early support on the Viet Nam War. Then, in 1967, O'Neill made a hawkish speech at Boston College, his alma mater, to a hostile young audience that included two of his children. Irked by one student questioner, he exploded: "I've had 43 briefings on the war from all the experts?Johnson, Westmoreland, Abrams, Bunker, Lodge, Rusk, McNamara?and I think I know more
...white-the school colors-and he dotes on the national-champion Longhorn football team. He is a tireless money raiser and wants nothing less than to make the U.T. system the best in the country. He has no patience with anyone or anything he considers damaging to his beloved alma mater-and since Erwin is chairman of the university's board of regents, his antagonists are automatically on red alert...
Harvard has always prided itself in its leadership-both in national issues of education, and in providing ment to lead the nation. Since 1636, "First" and then "Best" have been words on the lips of Harvard men when referring to their alma mater. Some of that is true: Harvard is an excellent university, and it has taken stands in the past that have led the way for others...