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Take the Dame. Across the land this football season, the great American college song has become the great American mumble. In a day when Hail to Thee, Oh Fink might best express "school spirit," the old Alma Mater idea seems "too hot-rocket" to kids unwilling to give "that kind of allegiance just to a college." Dissenters refuse to rise and sing because "your blanket falls off." Princeton hearts pound at Old Nassau, but Princeton mouths go da di da. Even Georgia Tech's "ramblin' wrecks" sing to the Alma Mater in a vast hum, as of bees...
Hills & Vales. The American Alma Mater goes back to 1836, when the Unitarian author of Fair Harvard stole the Irish ditty Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms. Before World War I, Yale lifted Germany's patriotic Die Wacht am Rhein for its own Bright College Years. Harvard mined the Marseillaise for On to Victory, and Columbia hitched Stand Columbia to Deutschland über Alles...
...alumnus ('22) it is not a little disturbing to receive repeatedly in my mail printed matter criticizing my alma mater for tolerating deliberate misstatements in the press, on radio and on TV with respect to fluoridation of public water supplies...
Tragically, this library will now be constructed much sooner than anticipated. It will perpetuate indefinitely the complicated tie between John F. Kennedy and his alma mater...
...behind a field house, puffing cigarettes and listening to Coach Jack ("The Barber") Luiselli. "When you hit the bums," Luiselli growled, "you got to put them down for good. Look, two touchdowns isn't the end of the world. I don't believe in all that alma mater stuff, but you guys are from Charlestown and you play football because you love the game. Let's go." The Townies shuffled back toward the dusty field. "One more thing," Luiselli yelled after them. "If you don't win this one, I'm cuttin' off your...