Word: maters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Suppose, my friend, twoscore more years have passed over your head, and you are bringing your hopeful son to the kindly arms of Alma Mater. With pride will you point out the place where you were arrested by the Port peeler. Approaching the then venerable Holyoke House, you will say, "Here, my son, is the very gutter in which I lay till the kind arms of comrades carried me to bed." With what admiring awe will your son regard you, and how he will endeavor to tread in the steps of his illustrious sire...
...class itself. Unquestionably the immediate benefit accrues to the graduating class and their friends, but indirectly the College gains, for it is brought favorably before the public, and the love for Harvard with old college-men is fostered by the maintenance of the gala-days of their Alma Mater, Class Day and Commencement. The Yard is always cleaned for Class Day, - perhaps the Class will appreciate its appearance the more if they know it is put in order with their money, - the buildings are refurbished, the entries "swept and garnished," the windows look abnormally transparent; these wonderful results are paid...
Such an action would be particularly appropriate in this year of the Centennial; it would be an action, too, becoming an institution of learning, which ought to lead the way towards advancement and right, and most of all becoming Harvard, the Alma Mater of Sumner, who was the first to feel and impress on the country the duty of reconciliation with the South...
...ability and experience which are displayed in these reports. The condition of the University in almost every department seems to be highly encouraging, and there is a tone of energy and hopefulness in these reports which ought to increase our respect for the government of our Alma Mater...
...nearly one twelfth, have come from some other college, and 162 others, rather more than an eighth, have already received degrees from Harvard. Had we included the summer courses, we should have found five new colleges represented, and fourteen more foster-sons, so to speak, of our Alma Mater, besides several gentlemen who are professors in still other colleges that are not represented by graduates...