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...keeping with attitudes of mind learned at Harvard, these essays are not emotion-laden "old alma mater" type plaints. They are some times nostalgic, but not for "the night we tore the Yale goalposts down" or for the good-natured camaraderie of their youth. Most represent a serious attempt to tell what they gained from Harvard, although for some, such as Dos Passos, the gain was not overly great: "It took me twenty years to discover that I did learn something at Harvard after all. Cambridge wasn't such a backwater as I'd thought...
...gentlemen in a manly atmosphere free of the influence of mothers and nannies. Last week, in similar fashion, Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip took their eight-year-old son Charles by the hand and delivered him over to Headmaster Peter Beck at Philip's own alma mater, Cheam, one of England's oldest and most tradition-encrusted preparatory schools...
...been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy, and his most outrageous hunches still have a habit of paying off. Last year he fired the touchdown pass that put Minnesota in front of his former alma mater; he scored twice against Illinois, twice more against Michigan to win back the five gallon Little Brown Jug. Last week against Washington he completed four passes and carried the ball himself for only 38 yds., but before the second team took over, his deft ball-handling had engineered four...
...prestige and awards, he outrates anybody in TV. He has been laureled not only with eight honorary degrees, but four colleges (one of them: his alma mater, Washington State) have offered him their presidencies. In addition, he has been showered with nearly 100 assorted prizes and honors, including so many George Foster Peabody Awards for various feats that the Peabody judges gave him another just for "being himself...
Cinemactor Danny Kaye returned to his Brooklyn alma mater, P.S. 149, where he demonstrated the irresistible hold he used to have on coeds, and recalled that it was in a school minstrel show that he first appeared on the stage and made a hit-playing a small seed in a large slice of watermelon...