Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must be put down and exterminated by the public and social opinion of undergraduates as men and gentlemen, determined to maintain free of spot or blemish their own honor and that of their "alma mater...
...many valuable Books ancient manuscripts, the Labour of the Learned, and the work of ages, in a few hours turned to ashes. Our College is now poorer than any on the Continent - we are all real mourners on this occasion and I doubt not your attachment to alma mater will make you feel sorrowful upon this conflagration. . . . . . "The President's house was in great danger the wind was strong at the west the latter part of the time, and in short if Stoughton had gone all the houses in town to the Eastward of the College would have gone...
...general, as tending toward Harvard. Says the Princetonian in closing, "Now it looks at present very much as if the Yale alumni are going finally to carry the day. And if, moreover, it be not wholly unreasonable to suppose that the Harvard alumni will ultimately win their alma mater to their principles, can it be an altogether vain speculation for us to hope that in the race of American colleges, Yale will continue to head for Harvard after Harvard has headed for Princeton and, that, Princeton's educational principles acknowledged supreme, Princeton will naturally take its place as the most...
...used $2,307,305 for the same purpose. It is customary for Yale apologists to put forward many excuses for the college, which allege lack, not only of funds, but of any spirit among alumni that comes, forward to ease the pecuniary path of their alma mater. But the graduates have never been asked to give: they are more often treated as interlopers in college affairs than persons whose support or backing is desirable. Yale men who will take the trouble to read Mr. Henry C. Kingsley's contribution to the November number of the New Englander and Yale Review...
General Butler has intimated that he will bequeath his fine library to Colby University, his Alma Mater...