Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peabody Museum will be open to-day, for the benefit of the visiting alumni, who will thus be enabled to see what remarkable ethnological treasures their Alma Mater possesses...
Invitations have been extended to the members of the senior class to listen to Dr. Hale and Mr. Winsor in a discussion of the history of the university. Every student now in the university should feel interested to learn the history of his Alma Mater, but members of the graduating class above all others should feel called upon to make it a subject of study. All old institutions possess readable histories, and Harvard is no exception. Upon an occasion like the approaching anniversary it would seem strange to a visitor that not one perhaps in a hundred students could tell...
...Alma Mater; mature in youth, vigorous in age, illustrious always...
...view of the coming celebration, it may be interesting to know in what way our fathers celebrated the birthday of their Alma Mater fifty years ago. The following account of the doings of that memorable day is taken from the History of Harvard University, written by President Quincy...
...ninety-six years of age, was unable to attend. The classes from 1763 to 1773 were successively named, but solemn pauses succeeded; they had all joined the great company of the departed, or, sunk in the vale of years, were unable to attend the high festival of their Alma Mater. At length, when the class of 1774 was named, Mr. Samuel Emery came forward; a venerable old man, a native of Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, who, at the age of eighty-six, after an absence of sixty years from the Halls of Harvard, had come from his residence in Philadelphia...