Word: mater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pencils. The difference between a D plus and a C minus and a C plus and a B minus comes into sharp focus and assumes an importance entirely out of proportion with that which it has when seen from the point of view which presents education as a mater of filling minds with knowledge and training them...
...that the news had not yet seeped into New York, or at least the TIME offices, that Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was no longer a member of the Wells College faculty. 1 am prompted by utterly selfish motives to hasten to lay claim to Mr. Coffin for his alma mater, Bowdoin College...
...Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., to be Coadjutor Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y. with the right of succession to that upstate see now administered by Bishop Joseph Henry Conroy, 77. Affable Monsignor Monaghan, 45, was ordained in 1915 from the North American College in Rome, alma mater of many an able U. S. prelate...
Last week 37-year-old President Hutchins returned to Yale to lecture his alma mater on what ought to be done about U. S. higher education. In four addresses given under the Storrs Lectures foundation he declared that the nation's universities are not "coherent." They must be "strong enough and clear enough to stand firm and show our people what the higher learning is." Faculty members more interested in research than in teaching, he said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins...
...State, intimating that WPAdministrator Hopkins was more interested in that than in feeding hungry children (TIME, March 23). As Dr. A. J. Kemper. county public health officer, uprose to dedicate the 100,000th privy last week, four bumpkin students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that up to 1932 some 1,000 West Virginia children died of flux (contagious diarrhea), 250 citizens of typhoid fever every year, that at the rate of decrease which has accompanied...