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...Worried that their alma mater's name suffered by comparison with those of other privately endowed Ivy League colleges (e.g., Yale, Harvard, Princeton), the University of Pennsylvania's Gazette began polling alumni to find out whether it was time for a change. Biggest complaint: people in other states believe Pennsylvania is a state institution, do not consider attending it, "consequently any prestige that might accrue to our alumni as graduates of a private institution is lost...
...Shippers Kenneth Dawson and William Sexton, Builders Harry Morrison and Stephen Bechtel, Oilman Richard Hanna and Philippine Industrialist Andres Soriano. - Named for Cuffe's alma mater, the University of California. A golden bear on a blue background is also the line's trademark...
...brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting's triple crown: the Puritan, Astor and King's Cups. A shrewd lawyer and financier, he raised Harvard's investments from $13 million to $120 million in 30 years as treasurer, made his alma mater the most heavily endowed university...
...even as late as 1783, the Overseers reported that "it it not known yet what the late treasurer had received and paid." Hancock--by then governor of the Commonwealth--was enraged by this "indignity" and immediately switched his two sons from his alma mater to Yale...
Born in Chicago, Ferry came to Harvard 1908 despite the fact his father and brother were Yale men. But the alma mater of which he is proudest is New York's Presbyterian Hospital, where be spent a two year interneship after graduating from Columbia Medical School in 1916. Ferry also found time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head...