Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot responded to the toast of "Our Alma Mater" at the dinner of the Rhode Island Harvard Club held at Providence, Wednesday evening. He claimed that the government of Harvard was intensely conservative and any undue precipitancy was thereby avoided. Improvement, however, had been made slowly but surely. Harvard was encouraging the students to do things for themselves, and as a result they had already organized and successfully managed Memorial Hall and the Co-operative. He also asserted that a good spirit of scholarship could not exist except as the results of free will and intellectual ambitions. The best...
These stereopticon views with which Mr. Bowen illustrated his own views upon alma mater, give a capital representation of life at Harvard. They comprise birds-eye views of the college and its surroundings, pictures of the buildings and of their interior, pictures of the yard, and all the other scenes so well known to us. Nor are the students themselves neglected. There is a view of Memorial in full operation, of a base-ball game on Holmes, and of the Harvard Princeton foot-ball game on Jarvis. The torch-light procession also is depicted accurately and strikingly...
...Harvard College, to place her professors and other insturctors on a proper footing, just to them and creditable and secure for us, $60,000 more per annum, or something over $1,000,000; and now is the opportunity you New Yorkers have been longing for to endow your alma mater...
...needy. If we cannot keep the field of sports against all comers or carry the pennant victoriously down the river, let us, by all that we esteem worthy, exhibit an interest in literary affairs, which cannot be deemed second to that of any other college which acknowledges our Alma Mater as the first university of the land...
...Tufts as excellent, and the teaching thorough. He did not say, however, that the students ate in the chapel or that some of the professors roomed in the gymnasium. He felt sorry for us that we were not in Tufts, and pointed out the excellencies of his Alma Mater, and we felt that if we were not sons of the Crimson we would be sons of Tufts. We had many pleasant experiences, by no means the least of which was the experience that everyone knew, not Smith of '86, but Ed. We asked after another Tufts friend. Our host stepped...