Word: alma
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...road to the Ivy title and the NCAA tournament is won by stealing some games on the road," said Harvard Coach Peter Roby, who claimed a two-game sweep over his alma mater for the first time in his six-year coaching tenure. "This by no means does anything but give us one-up on everybody else. Until somebody proves they can win up here in this environment, we have one in our pocket...
...that same anglo in the ghettos of Miami, add a motocross national championship or three, some gang incidents, a common alma mater with Luke Skywalker of the Crew, and smooth it all out with the Vanilla Ice moniker--instant interest. But there's still got to be musical talent--someone's musical talent...
...what do you think about Yale Medical School?" demanded one interviewer. A reasonable question, except that he was not from Yale Medical School. For 30 harrowing minutes, I tried to explain my ignorance of my interviewer's beloved alma mater. Finally, he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him what he thought about the medical campus I was visiting...
Forget the 18 Prime Ministers, Wellingtons, Pitts and Walpoles: any school that is the ostensible alma mater of James Bond, Tarzan and Lord Peter Wimsey has clearly made a contribution to the world. And the quirkiness of Eton College ensures that it still seems to belong less to life than to Lewis Carroll fiction. The boys wear coats with tails, the teachers are called beaks, and both parties greet one another on the street by simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors...
Most interventionists cheered Luce's appeal. But even some of them were disturbed by the missionary's son's missionary zeal. The Nation called Luce's program magnanimous but also smug and self-righteous. The Literary Magazine at his alma mater, Yale, called it "jingoistic jargon." Luce's favorite theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, later wrote that the very title implied an "egoistic corruption...