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...Chase and Thomas Stone. "These men," he cried, "not only signed the Declaration of Independence. They exerted themselves . . . for the people they had helped free by founding . . . St. John's and by choosing its present campus." The president of St. John's alumni summoned to his alma mater's aid the shades of Francis Scott Key and Major General Allan McBride, who died in a prison camp at Formosa. Columbia's Professor Mark Van Doren added his testimonial to St. John's: "The best known, the most often discussed, the most often debated...
...student at the University of Georgia in Athens, where his classmates were 61 coeds. Last week he still had no logical explanation of his craving for art. But grateful Student Holbrook had presented his entire $175,000 collection, acquired over four decades, to his new alma mater. Forty of his best items went on exhibition in the university's library...
...excited parents and friends. Among them, more subdued but more deeply moved, stood an older part of the Long Grey Line of West Point graduates. At a booming command, some 4,800 white-gloved hands snapped 2,400 rifles to "present arms." Front & center, to the strains of Alma Mater, marched the 853 members of the class of 1945, the largest in West Point history. Then the Corps, company by company, wheeled and passed in review, rank on rigid rank saluting with eyes right, and being saluted in turn by doffed hats, until the last line vanished back through...
...followed his father to the U.S., found himself advanced enough in French, mathematics and philosophy to start a small tutoring business, worked his way through Columbia by ghostwriting on the side. Graduating in 1927 at the head of his class, he was promptly hired to teach at his alma mater and has been at it ever since; he is now assistant professor of history...
...Tillotsen, who calls Brown his Alma Mater, was seen prodding Fritz Stein into accepting some liberty last week-end. The results are unknown, but Freddie was pretty sharp in Monday's classes, so perhaps James wasn't very persuasive. The amount of mail Don McClure received from Texas leads us to believe that this quiet, longhorn is already making plans for his leave