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Tomorrow's season-opening trip to Yale, Palm's alma mater, should be comparable to stepping into a pool at the shallow and before forging ahead into deeper waters. The Crimson faced the Elis in a fall scrimmage, and "unless [Yale] has improved dramatically since then, [Harvard] shouldn't have much trouble," Palm says. Columbia will also be in New Haven to face Yale, and Harvard has arranged a scrimmage against the Lions...
...number of years ago, I attended a Clemson homecoming game because they were playing against my alma mater, Duke University. The Clemson band was magnificent, the crowd enthusiastic, the tiger mascot amusing, but, alas, the football team was having a bad season and they lost-even to Duke! On my way out of the stadium, I noticed the usual homecoming banners: BEAT DUKE, BEAT DOOK, BEAT THE DEVILS. Then I saw a large banner stretched across the front of a dorm: BEAT SOMEBODY! I have been a Clemson fan ever since...
...very pleased spectator was Rita Harder, coach Dooley's predecessor. Though a Brown alum, she didn't seem to mind the drubbing the Crimson gave her alma mater. "There's good depth on all three lines," she said, adding, "They're playing with a lot more confidence this year, having won more games early in the season...
...remember, Gen. Harlan Bache had always whipped his boys into a state of frenzied loyalty by commencement time. The way they looked up to the old guy, why you'd think they'd die for his beliefs. When Bache informs his assembled troops one fine June morning that their alma mater has been sold to condominium developers by a bunch of gutless civilian trustees, some of the real over-achievers get it into their heads to do something about...
Karim Aga Khan '59, spiritual leader of more than 14 million Ismaili Muslims and a prominent international philanthropist, is building a modern teaching hospital in Pakistan, and he wants some advice from his alma mater on how to go about...