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...chief criticisms of the anthem come from people who, like Mr. Pegler, seem to look upon America with something of the same grade of sentiment with which a college sophomore looks on his alma mater...
...Landis, who replaces Dr. Walton B. Cannon, retired, is a graduate of the University of Philadelphia, receiving his medical degree from there also in 1926. Since then he has been Assistant Professor of Medicine at his Alma Mater and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia, where he has served since...
Tulane. Rice says of his alma mater: "The diploma said I was a baccalaris artium, and when the president handed it to me he welcomed me into the 'company of educated men.' They were both liars...
...upon a time (in Loretto, Pa.) humble little St. Francis College had a rich neighbor and alumnus who lived across the road in a $3,000,000 mountain castle called Immergrun (German for Evergreen). He was the late Steel Tycoon Charles M. Schwab. Often Mr. Schwab promised his alma mater a $2,000,000 endowment, but he never got around to it. Instead, when he died three years ago, bankrupt Mr. Schwab left the college holding the bag to the tune of $25,000, which he borrowed from it in 1932 and never repaid...
...they were minded to, the prospective all-Southern Conference champs could trace their Alma Mater's life back to pre-Harvard days. For even before New England had been settled, the tobacco planters of Virginia tried to establish a college. An Indian massacre wiped out faculty and students though, and that...