Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alumni of Cornell University are quite perturbed at the news that a moving picture producer is planning a film of Cornell life to be called "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" as a delicate tribute to that institution's well known song. Visioning their Alma Mater under the glare of bright lights and reflecting that the estimable old lady is not as young as she might be these alumni seem to doubt that she will appear to advantage on the stage...
...Prince's article, published in the issue of the Alumni Bulletin which makes its appearance today, upholds one side of the discussion occasioned by Owen's unexpected statement. Several other letters received at the Bulletin office have been fully as favorable to Owen's point of view. Mr. Prince's article is printed in full below...
...influence which alumni sentiment exerts on the policies of a university is as constant as it is often omnipotent. Distinctly an indigenous development, this force represents a form of graduate regency which is perennially decried by those who find its weight so irksome that they can see only its occasional misapplications...
...delightfully humorous article entitled "The Divine Right of the Alumni", appearing in the current Independent, Mr. Frederick L. Allen '12 pictures a loyal alumnus cherishing a fond affection for an alma mater he no longer understands and blundering incompetently about without exercising "a cubic millimeter of his brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni...
...suggestion is all the more worthy attention from the wise heads who are sitting up of nights with American education and feeling its feeble pulse. Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into an institution of learning in place of a good tight paddock where impetuous young men may be kept for four years to run about much as they please without serious danger of getting lost or damaging...