Word: alma
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...true Crimson fashion, I could arrogantly call for some administrators to leave campus instead. But that wouldn't really solve the problem. Indeed, the housing ringleader, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will leave Harvard today after a long career at his alma mater. Hopefully, though, the scores of alumni from the past several decades will prove their commitment to preserving what many (including myself) consider the best part of their Harvard experience. Although the administration certainly does not live in undergraduate housing, the University will always depend upon our continued contributions...
Under terms of his privilege, Lee's June 9 visit to Cornell's campus in the upstate New York town of Ithaca will remain the homecoming of a private traveler to his alma mater. That suits Lee well enough. A 1968 Cornell graduate in agriculture and economics, the Taiwan leader has lately made "private" excursions abroad the calling card of his quietly persistent efforts to break the island's isolation. Last year his golfing tours of some Southeast Asian countries, mixed with unofficial summiteering at the 19th hole, earned his style the label of vacation diplomacy...
...Clinton Administration today officially acknowledged that it will grant the president of Taiwan a visa allowing the Cornell University alumnus to appear at his alma mater. President Lee Teng-hui, who has been invited to address an alumni reunion at Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y. campus, in June, would be the first leader of Taiwan to visit the U.S. since 1979, when Washington recognized Beijing as the sole government of China. (China regards Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist Chinese who fled the communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949, as a renegade province.) The State Department has been loath...
...project "focuses on minority students in urban city high schools," she said. After running a pilot program in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Coleman is now introducing ACCESS to her alma mater, J.F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx...
When Harvard students engage in their favorite pastime of Yale bashing, they never lack ammunition. And while the Elis make valiant but futile attempts to defend their alma mater, one thing even they acknowledge is that Harvard is safer than its younger, poorer sister...