Word: alma
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...Christian alumni who funded the event say their loyalty to their alma mater and their religious ties combined to lead them to fund a campaign significantly larger than many groups' annual budgets...
...told Mister Keg that Josh and I attend UMass-Boston. He bought it, and Josh got his beer sans spittle. You laugh, but two friends later told me that they ditched their beer, finding it “funny tasting” after having been alma-mater - truthful...
...famous works by acclaimed playwright and Harvard visiting professor Adrienne Kennedy, is ostensibly a play about violence. "I was asked to talk about the bloody imagery in my work," says Denise Nicholas at the start of the performance, playing a famous writer returning to give a lecture at her alma mater. "Bloodied heads, severed limbs, dead father, dead Nazis, dying Jesus." But those audience members looking for a shocking array of violence and defacement, a visual testament to the horrors of American racism which the play so brilliantly confronts, will have to look elsewhere. Yes, there is violence...
...were served our scrambled eggs and fresh-baked biscuits and had read the headlines on the Memphis Commercial Appeal that had been slipped under our door, we were nearly into the station at Greenwood, Miss., where a few local passengers boarded. Our breakfast companions were Claudia Ogle and Alma Holloway, a retired secretary and a bank administrator from Toledo, Ohio. When I mentioned that I had showered in the toilet-shower combo, they looked as scandalized as if I had announced that I had sunbathed topless on the engine roof at full speed...
Residential "blocking" strikes me as a lousy system for arranging students--whether in groups of eight, 16, or any other (Editorial, March 12). Instead, I suggest that the College consider an approach that has worked well for my alma mater, Yale: Assign first-years to Houses before they arrive in September and group them in the Yard so that, for instance, Eliot first-years are assigned to Matthews...