Word: mater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since that time, authorities here, as at most other colleges in the nation, have learned simply to expect the worst each June when a new group of dignified, responsible, and highly educated adults returns to pay homage to its Alma Mater...
...year merely to keep in touch with the estimated 44,000 living alumni of Harvard College. This averages out to an expenditure of about $7 per year on each alumnus--a figure that seems extravagantly high until one reflects that last year College alumni presented their Alma Mater with gifts totalling $636,807, a total representing about $14.50 per man, or more than a 200 percent return on the original investment...
U.C.L.A. Alumnus J. Miller Leavy, a member of his alma mater's athletic advisory board, suddenly remembered out loud that he knew all about an organization called the Southern California Educational Foundation, which had slid $71,235 under the table to U.S.C. athletes. The foundation's books had been a matter of public record for years. Assistant District Attorney Leavy presented his evidence at this time, he said, because he felt that good old U.C.L.A. had been unfairly singled out for punishment...
Roman Jakobson, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, lectured yesterday on Russian literature at his alma mater--Moscow University. He won heavy applause in his first return to his native land in 36 years...
Handle with Love. Some 200 boys have graduated from Mater Dei's clean dormitories and affectionate supervision to steady jobs and marriage, or back to their families. "Actually, we can't offer them as much materially as they can win for themselves on the streets," says Mario Borelli. "So why do they come to this church, and why do they stay? It is very simple. Scugnizzi are not animals. They are humans, and instinctively feel that animal life is wrong...