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...there was Radcliffe. For 25 years, Harvard's sister college had stood next door, occupying an incongruous and, to some, incomprehensible position as the de jure alma mater of Harvard's female undergraduates. It offered no classes and employed no faculty, but clung to its aging alumni body and charged Harvard rent on the use of Byerly Hall for its admissions office, presumably in order to pay the salaries of its burgeoning administrative ranks...
Charles E. Eliot, Class of 1859, remade his alma mater as a national institution...
...Christian alumni who funded the event say their loyalty to their alma mater and their religious ties combined to lead them to fund a campaign significantly larger than many groups' annual budgets...
...true to your school if your school thinks you're an evil, capitalistic overlord? PHIL KNIGHT believes not. The Nike chairman last week announced that he will make no further personal donations to his alma mater, the University of Oregon, after the school joined the Workers' Rights Consortium, a labor-rights organization that has been critical of working conditions in Nike's overseas factories. Knight, who's given $50 million to the school, said in a statement, "The bonds of trust [that] allow me to give at a high level have been shredded." Apparently, so have plans...
...told Mister Keg that Josh and I attend UMass-Boston. He bought it, and Josh got his beer sans spittle. You laugh, but two friends later told me that they ditched their beer, finding it “funny tasting” after having been alma-mater - truthful...