Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...congratulation. More than this we cannot say, but in the name of Harvard we present our thanks to the members of the freshman nine, and trust that the example they have set for future freshmen may be followed in the same spirit of enthusiasm and loyalty to their Alma Mater, as has been shown by eighty nine...
...honor to the occasion, not only by their action, but by their names. And now comes the result of the meeting of the undergraduate committee, which occurred last night, as reported in another column, to confirm our hopes of a celebration next autumn which shall do our Alma Mater more than credit in the eyes of the world. We think the order of the festivities as allotted for the three different days, is an excellent one. Sunday coming between the two days of the greater eclat will tend to relieve the monotony which must otherwise ensue from three successive days...
...present undergraduates. This is a chance which will come to us but once, so let us seize it and have a glorious celebration in every sense of the word. We should count ourselves very lucky in being able to take part in the quarter-millennial anniversary of our Alma Mater. We trust that the newly elected committee will formulate some plan without delay, and we have perfect confidence in their ability to get up a rousing celebration...
Fellow students of the University, it is for us to change this condition of things. It is for us to have opinions of which we are not ashamed, on a question which concerns the whole future of our alma mater. It is for us to be always ready to act up to our opinions and convictions. If we will do this there can be no doubt of the result, for the will of the majority, clearly expressed...
...Harvard are now divided into so many groups, each little group thinking its own thoughts, having its own assemblings, and giving its own dinners, that we would fain forget that larger bond, the class, that binds them all together. In just such manner does the bond of our alma mater become indistinct in our eyes. But when college days are past, the difference is at once felt! How valuable all reunions, of college or class, then become to us; they speak to us like voices from the past. Why can not some of this spirit be exhibited while...