Word: alma
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...site now known as Cambridge was first settled in 1630 and named Newtowne. Six years later, teh Massachusetts Bay Company set aside funding for what eventually became Harvard. In 1638, the town was renamed Cambridge in honor of the English alma matter of many of the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts...
Here we have our Literary City, birthplace and/or alma mater to Willa Cather, Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, B. Traven, Algren, Bellow. Who gets to hang the tag on it? Carl Sandburg...
...come to define the look of the late 20th century in the U.S. "There are hardly any major designers who have not been influenced by the kind of American style Calvin epitomizes," notes Valerie Steele, a professor at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology, Klein's alma mater. Indeed, his spare-chic ethos is reflected in the work of everyone from superstars like Donna Karan, Michael Kors and Miuccia Prada to up-and-comers like handbag designer Kate Spade. More significantly, it is the bedrock of the no-fuss aesthetic peddled by the Gap, J. Crew and Banana...
...fall of 1928, Edward S. Harkness, a graduate of Yale, offered to give more than $13 million toward the construction of Lowell's longdesired residential houses. Harkness had first approached his own alma mater in New Haven, but did not receive a suitably enthusiastic response until he approached Lowell...
...never wanted it to get to this point, suing our alma mater," said Forbes, now the vice-chair of HAARC. "But here we are. A whole year has gone by, including protests for a year from people who really should have been listened to. Harvard has shown an unwillingness to listen to any of these people, including its own architecture faculty...