Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...close of the last college year Rochester University suffered a double loss, in the withdrawal from its faculty of two of its strongest and most popular members, Pres. Martin B. Anderson, and Dr. Harrison E. Webster, who was recalled to his Alma Mater, Union College, as its president...
...learn, doing excellent work, and the prospects of a western trip cannot but prove an additional incentive. But the college also has much to gain by this decision. Harvard's sons in our larger western cities will once more be brought in contact with their Alma Mater, and will of necessity feel their interest in her revived. Means such as these for keeping Harvard before the public are both legitimate and effective, furnishing, at the same time the they accomplish their purpose, en ? ment to both the glee and banjo clubs...
...Shurtleff presided. President Dwight was received with great applause and in his address praised the work of the university in the past and spoke of the future prospects and plans. After the conclusion of Pres. Dwight's address, Senator Davis arose and said: "Our alma mater was never so strong, never so full of vigor, although in her two hundredth year, as she is today. The older she grows the younger she is. She has come to what she is, because she is a growth and not a creation. She has grown to it. She is like a tree that...
...spite of the disastrous outcome of the game there was one feature connected with it to which we may look with pleasure-the enthusiastic support given the team by Harvard graduates. Between four and five hundred were present at the game, cheering lustily for their alma mater. Such loyalty was certainly deserving of a better fate. To these graduates and to the undergraduates who followed the fortunes of the football team, the college owes its thanks...
...would not seem to sniff at political earnestness on the part of Harvard men. Let duty to our country is but one of the duties (perhaps the highest individual one) taught us by our Alma Mater; Mind, it is duty to our country not to the Democratic or Republican parties. Every man has ample opportunity to join oue or the other of the great political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something...