Word: alma
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Last year, Ghaith R. Pharaon, a 1965 Harvard Business School alumnus, gave his graduate alma mater as much as $1 million on the occasion of his 25th reunion. He has already paid an initial installment of $100,000, according to alumni sources...
...published first in Yiddish in The Jewish Daily Forward and later in translation. Saul Bellow brought him wide recognition by rendering the poignant anecdote Gimpel the Fool in English. But royalties were slow to arrive, and for many years Singer lived modestly on the earnings of his second wife Alma, a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue. Until late in life he kept his name in the Manhattan phone book, and at lunch hour he could be found munching a vegetarian meal at his favorite West Side cafeteria. When he was asked, "Do you abstain from meat for your health?" Singer...
Although their numbers were well sung, the Tigertones did not exactly push the limits of a capella excitement. With the exceptions of "Kiss the Girl," from The Little Mermaid, and a medley of college alma maters, the Tigertones' performance was little more than a sleeping pill. Among their crimes: stripping the soul from "My Girl." It is ironic that the group sang "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Shu Bomp Shu Bomp)"--the answer certainly was not the Tigertones...
Although Rudenstine is the newest candidate in the public spotlight, he is by no means an unknown at Harvard. After leaving the University in 1968, the Renaissance literature specialist went on to climb the academic and administrative ladder at Princeton University, his alma mater...
Looking at other schools and their current campaigns, Scott says he is encouraged. For instance, the vice president says fundraising at his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has not been stunted significantly by the economic environment...