Word: alma
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...selected are Jonathan J. Finer '99 of Winthrop House, Akash K. Kapur '98 formerly affiliated with Dunster House and Navin Narayan '99 of Adams House. The Rhodes scholarship was established in 1904 by the estate of Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes envisioned bringing students from nine beneficiary countries to Oxford, his alma mater, to promote international understanding and peace...
Make no mistake, times have changed. For much of The Game's history, there were no Harvard women representing their alma mater in the stands--those in attendance came from Radcliffe. Male Harvard students twenty years ago dressed up and brought dates to The Game, which played the role of both sporting event and social activity...
...this bridge built in memory of a scholar and a soldier, connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater and a last suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs...
With seven women showing up to chat about their alma mater in Dallas and eight in Ft. Lauderdale, Wilson's outreach effort was hardly a tour-de-force...
After Pravda came academe--the directorship first of his alma mater, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and then, in 1985, of the country's premier think tank, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). Primakov took over IMEMO at the beginning of the Gorbachev era and quickly became a key part of the Gorbachev team. He played a major role in creating the ideology of perestroika, in particular questioning the communist dogmas that had traditionally determined foreign relations. But his predilection for the shadows and his stiffness in public meant that he received less credit than Gorbachev...