Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While in the main we agree with our correspondent of to-day, we cannot approve of his more violent phrases. It is true that a tendency of Harvard student-correspondents of leading daily papers to bring discredit on their Alma Mater by sensational writing is becoming day by day more noticeable. If any reporter exaggerates what he hears, he is to be severely criticized. For the college-man who endeavors to make capital for himself or for his paper by gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget...
...college men meet, in friendly rivalry, on lake and river, on base-ball and football fields, and in the various sports of field-day. Anxious parents and learned faculties look on, the while, half joyfully, half sorrowfully; now with the wild enthusiasm, shouting 'well done, boys, for Alma Mater,' now anxiously scanning the nut-brown players, if may be to discover some lurking bodily ill, some bookish imperfection which the annual newspaper squib alleges must be the sad ending of all such folly. Fortunately for the general welfare, however, these allegations are sensational, being founded on isolated cases of imperfection...
...there was not the excitement in this campaign which has been the excuse for similar outburst in the last two years, it was hoped that the usual freshman ebullition might be omitted. As all three candidates were Harvard graduates, perhaps there was a feeling that by cheering for alma mater, the different candidates could be honored, and yet the most tender of partisan feelings remain unhurt. However, the custom is a bad one and should be given...
...make as cowardly a parade of another one's name as was done by this same correspondent in the report of the freshman class meeting. It seems to me, at least, that when a man assails another man's reputation in the public press and describes his alma mater in an untrue light, he should be made to perceive in the plainest manner possible that he has been violating the traditions of good breeding, and that the rest of the college think...
...number of Yale alumni object to the proposed change of the official name of their alma mater from Yale College to Yale University...