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...Alma Mater, hail to thee...
Radcliffe's Alma Mater, from Information about Radcliffe College for Prospective Students
...Currier Houses will do battle in the Radcliffe pool. To accommodate for the new living arrangements, Radcliffe women living at Harvard may swim in any events for their old Radcliffe Houses. Harvard men living at Radcliffe will be allowed to swim in one relay for their new alma mater...
...father looks much like Churchill and he smokes a white cigar, but the black wings on his shoulders signify that he is the Angel of Death. The mother, or Grey Lady, is the mater dolorosa, a woman of sorrowing countenance, possibly the mother of Christ; her huge supplicating hands resemble those of a pietà. She sends her son off to war and we feel that she knows he will be killed. A single glass tear slowly descends her right cheek...
THERE is a story about Mary Bunting that goes something like this: one day early in her term as president she was trying to convince several wealthy alumnae to contribute large sums to their alma mater when she received a phone call from her housekeeper. The bees from her son's apiary had somehow escaped and were flying around the house and the housekeeper was distraught. Bunting, thinking of first things first, said, "Just tell them to be good and I'll be home as soon as I can," and returned to the alumnae...