Word: mater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out that it was the same old place that it had always been. Or, literally speaking, similar in its differences. A couple of Freshmen were wandering about with their mothers; one, smiling knowingly and signifying the New Indoor Athletic Building, confidentially informed the mater that "the Master of this House even had a private swimming pool", some friend had told...
...Josephine Young, 24, only daughter of Owen D. Young; and Everett Needham Case, 30, assistant secretary of General Electric Co., son of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank; in Van Hornesville, N. Y. by President Richard Eddy Sykes of St. Lawrence University, alma mater of the bride's parents...
...childless). To philanthropic and educational institutions goes $1.001,000, of which $500,000 is for the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $100,000 for the Boy Scouts of America (of which Banker Schiff was elected president three weeks before he died), $50,000 to his alma mater, Amherst College. To his family retainers and to every employe of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. go gifts ranging from $100 to $20,000. City and country houses and three-fifths of the residuary estate are left, in trust, to Mrs. Adele Gertrude Schiff, the remaining two-fifths in trust...
...Many of the blessings enumerated above, those coming from Mr. Harkness in particular, must be credited to Exeter's headmaster: Lewis Perry, brother of Bliss Perry, famed former Harvard English professor and onetime Editor of the Atlantic Monthly. After teaching at Lawrenceville School and at Williams, his alma mater (class of 1898), he came to Exeter in 1914. No scholar, he does not teach at Exeter, spends much time away from school spreading Exter's fame and obtaining endowments...
...people and hosiery strikers who flashed big placards labeled: MR. HOOVER. WHERE IS YOUR FULL DINNER PAIL? More polite were members of Stanford University's track team (see p. 28) who, stopping at the Ritz-Carlton across the street, stood out on the sidewalk to see their alma mater's potent trustee (see p. 36). At the Union League dinner the President was presented with a life-sized portrait of himself (see cut) painted last summer by Greek Artist Pilides Costa. In an extemporaneous speech of thanks President Hoover declared: "It is difficult for me to express with...