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...detect an underlying annoyance, you are correct. Did you have to add that outrageous and ridiculous prediction that Brown would lose to Yale? Have you forgotten already that Brown is my Alma Mater...
...Minutemen had 30 returning lettermen (though many did not start in 1978). They had size and an experienced quarterback. They had a talented fullback in Cliff Pedrow, a former star Tiger fullback for my alma mater, White Plains High School. But Harvard had kept Pedrow to virtually nothing last year, and he was coming off a 100-yd.-plus multiple-touchdown day against Maine. Still, UMass was certain to be competent--in fact, they almost certainly would be a tough opponent...
...College occasionally sends emissaries out Rochester's way--usually professors who speak on their specialties, to show alumni that alma mater is putting their contributions to good use. "We get big names sometimes, like Reischauer and Fairbank, but who the big names are changes from year to year and each year every community wants those people," Trueheart says...
...Harvard Alumni officer smiles contentedly. If only they were all like '54. Rich, successful and generous to their alma mater, they are ideal Harvard ambassadors, men the College would like to believe typical of its graduates...
When the 107 returning members of the Radcliffe Class of 1954 arrive at Comstock Hall Wednesday afternoon to embark upon three days of receptions, luncheons, colloquia, special exhibits and performances in honor of the Radcliffe Centennial, they'll find significant changes in their alma mater. Back in the early '50s, Radcliffe was an institution seeminly independent of Harvard, sharing only course instruction, an economy measure forced by war-time pressures. Radcliffe women lived in the dormitories at the Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned...