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...Ruth Hussey, 37, grey-eyed star of stage (State of the Union) and screen (The Philadelphia Story), returned to her old alma mater, Providence's Pembroke College (where she was an "average student"), put on the proper costume for playing the part of an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts...
...great-great-grandson. In accordance with the arrangement his family had made, he sold the papers to Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, Manhattan Boswell collector who has purchased all the Malahide and Fettercairn finds. By last week the collecting colonel had sold them in turn to his old alma mater, Yale...
...morning of June 12, 1940, Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall stood before the graduating class at his alma mater, his mind full of dark forebodings. "This is a day of high emotion for you men," said he to Virginia Military Institute's grey-uniformed seniors. "It may also be one of the most fateful days in the history of the world . . ." General Marshall was right. That morning, President Roosevelt had summoned him to an emergency meeting: German troops were advancing on Paris...
When the last discussion of coeducation reduced to the absurdity of beanies and the Marxian significance of women's not being admitted to Lamont, I feared the mater was dead. But now that Thomas J. Wilson has issued another hallenge to the Female Peril, there is nothing to do but rise heroically to his assistance...
Ober criticized his alma mater for tolerating such "extracurricular activities." His letter produced a short reply from Conant and a lengthy defense of the University's position from Grenville Clark '03, senior member of the Corporation...