Word: alma
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Dean of the Faculty A. Nichael Spence, Princeton '66, didn't pick a definite score of any game except Harvard Princeton. But the dean wisely went with his employer over his alma mater...
Rosenberg concurs, playing down his return not just to his alma mater but his home. "I really don't have many strong feelings about the return to Harvard as the place," says the Newton native. "My sense of homecoming is more oriented toward the people than the place...
...glee spread even to the ranks of Big Green alumni. Asked whether he liked seeing his alma mater beaten, Crimson Assistant Basketball Coach Peter Roby, Dartmouth '79, replied. "By Harvard? Absolutely, No question...
Hancock, one of Boston's wealthiest merchants, gave generously to his alma mater, and the Corporation rewarded him by naming him treasurer. But Hancock had little taste for the job and spent most of his time travelling on business or political missions, neglecting the University's finances. He failed to collect term bills or pay debts, and complicated matters by carrying the University's financial records on his travels...
...27th work of fiction, is, like most of its predecessors, a study of a small group of people who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side, belong to the Knickerbocker and Colony clubs, send their sons to schools such as Groton and Yale (the author's alma maters), and consider the Rockefellers, who came into their billions less than a century ago, slightly parvenu. This time around, Auchincloss is concerned with the female of that rare and resplendent species: twelve women who met once a month, from 1908 to 1972, to enrich themselves still further by discussing...