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Died. Thomas Sovereign Gates, 75, onetime Morgan partner, longtime (1930-44) president of the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of its board of trustees since 1944; in Osterville, Mass. A wealthy Philadelphian, he gave up banking to run his alma mater, without pay, for the sake of "romance and high adventure...
...recipient traditionally lives in John Harvard's old suite at Emmanuel, his almo mater...
...presenting all or most of the work, Woodworth elected to cut it down to less than half its original length and to devote the rest of the program to compositions by Randall Thompson '20. Granting Randall Thompson the right to performances by the Glee Club of his alma mater, one still wonders why such performances might not have been saved for some other occasion and "L'Allegro" given in a manner which did not make its music overshortened and its intense Miltonian text compressed out of meaning...
President Charles Seymour yesterday announced a plan whereby Yale students will take out insurance policies to provide twenty-fifth anniversary gifts for their alma mater. Each participant will procure a 25-year endowment policy on his life, naming the class gift committee as beneficiary...
Foaming steins that never empty and plaintive ballads that never end may remind some of the ETO, but they remind thousands more of the four glorious years they drifted through their Alma Mater. It was Smokey Joe's at Pennsylvania and Zinck's at Cornell and at Harvard, well, don't send your boy to Harvard warned the dying mother because there's no place to go. He can sing with the Glee Club and drink wherever the stools are softest; but because of a Cambridge ruling forbidding tavern singing, he can't do both at once...