Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more elegant. The use of these cant terms clings to us more or less through life and marks us as men of Harvard. The man of '79 is as easily recognized at times as the grave and potent senior who has but just heard the gates of his alma mater close behind...
...Just as our own alma mater is without doubt the principal, if not, in the true sense of the term, the only university in the west, so Harvard is certainly the university of the east, and by reason of its age and wealth, with the great advantages and opportunities thereby afforded, there is but little doubt that "Fair Harvard" can with justice claim the proud distinction of being the foremost university in America...
...important part of student life. College spirit and college friendship give inestimable value to college life. Of an inferior sort indeed we would regard the students who could easily and willingly break their connection with a college that in truth they ought to look upon as their alma mater...
...year eighteen hundred and eighty-five has now yielded to a successor, and the class that was graduated last June now feels itself more completely separated from its alma mater. The lingering year, with its '85, was sort of a thread holding the class to the college; but now that thread has gone, and the '85 man says, "I was graduated last year." But it is different with the senior of '86. He says, at once with pleasure and with regret, "I am graduated this year." Thus the coming of a new year seems somehow to make more...
...some of this "national fame" which has so deservedly come to Johns Hopkins. If Harvard undertook to publish the meritorious works of her graduates, there can be no doubt that those Harvard men, who have hitherto gone to Johns Hopkins with their writings, would gladly turn to their alma mater. We can hardly conceive of any move that would give a greater impulse to advanced study in Harvard circles than the publication of "Harvard University studies in Historical and Political Science." And why only in these departments? Surely the matter would be profitably extended to other departments as well...