Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that now enter tending to do away with it. Many a graduate of our large colleges leaves them with great benefit of mind, it is true, but without any good socially. Such a man looks back on college years bitterly, without affection or sentiment, for to him his alma mater has been a good instructor,-that is all. For success, a class wherever it be, must associate and act in unison, and not remain broken up into little groups which are in opposition to each other and accomplish but little in whatever direction they turn...
...importance than the recent celebration at Edinburgh, but it is, nevertheless, one in which Harvard is particularly interested. For it was at Emmanuel that John Harvard obtained his college education, and from which he came direct to America to preach to the Puritan colonists. It was also the alma mater of Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College. The name itself of Cambridge came after them from the old to the new seat of learning. It was still comparatively young-50 years old-when the New England college was founded, and was the Puritan centre of learning. Many...
...appropriate the necessary funds or else graduates and undergraduates interested in the future welfare of recreation and athletics should take the matter in hand. They could raise a fund as Yale has done, and purchasing the most available pieces of land near the college, present them to their alma mater to be kept forever, just as Jarvis field is, for the sole purpose of recreation...
...other country, provided, of course, the trustees, faculty and students, put into practice Dr. Hamlin's theories. Hitherto, when an American college needed money-and as a rule it always needed it-appeals were made to charity. The alumni of Middlebury College may, however, feel sure that their Alma Mater will never need assistance, except, perhaps, in spending the enormous wealth which it is destined to acquire...
...calculated before the variations of the needle can be correctly observed and measured. Mr. Ely is a graduate of the class of '36, and was for several years after graduation tutor of Latin in the college. He takes this way of expressing his kind feelings toward his Alma Mater, and it is a way which may well be imitated by other graduates. [News...