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Lawrence, Pusey soon found, has many ties with his alma mater. Amos Lawrence, its founder, was the brother of Abbott Lawrence, President Lowell's grandfather, and was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a heavy contributor to the building of Memorial Hall. Perhaps as atonement for this architectural sin or perhaps because the land was of no use to him (the Lawrence won renown for their frugality) he donated some Wisconsin acreage he had acquired to the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Church to use in founding a college...
...Penn's greatest football and basketball players, the belligerent "Old Quaker" (1937) had tried to achieve permanent national sports prominence for his alma mater and local profit...
...cooperation with 45 privately endowed colleges across the U.S., Bethlehem Steel Co. announced a novel way of helping higher education. Henceforth, every time a graduate from one of the 45 colleges takes Bethlehem's famed "Loop Course" for administrative and technical training, his alma mater will get a gift of $3,000. That, said Bethlehem, is to help pay the college back for what it spends on giving a student four years of education. ¶Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., the first Negro institution in the world to award collegiate degrees, decided on a shift of policy. Since Negroes...
Nunc de illo Indo scenico quem priorc noctc theatro Agassizo nostrac musca Terentianac feccrunt ct hac nocte iterabunt. Primas partes qui agunt, eis omnibus prisca festivitas ct vis comica. Quorum sunt cum primis nominandi hi duces: illa Magna Mater semper potens semper tranquilla, Thais (Paludis Filum nobile!) et illa cuius nomen perdurum Latine reddere nequeo nympha, Abigail Lewis, comoeda gracilitatis venustac ct aurcac vocis; tunc Sanctus Clarus ct Vadum Fractum et ipse cunuchus nunc tennis nunc fortis, omnes adulescentes maximi animi atque facundissimac libertatis; et deinde noster miles barbatus procellosusque (qui baculum habes) et illc umbraculatus Scotus sive sobrius sive...
...thesis with Baxter in 1944, and worked for a year with Professor Urey at Columbia separating from Uranium-238 the atomic bomb-ingredient, U-235. But Nash was mainly interested in teaching so when the war ended, he first spent a year at Illinois, then returned to his alma mater in 1947 as an instructor in Chemistry. He received an appointment as Assistant Professor the following year. And he made an immediate name for himself by riding a bicycle to lectures, armed with a water pistol filled with ammonia to keep the dogs...