Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard is rapidly becoming the national university of the United States. Our alma mater is the Minerva in the Pantheon of American letters. Our own Cambridge suggests its English namesake. The university on the banks of the Cam is one of the glories of England. Its ancient foundations have been enriched with the wealth of the kingdom. The beauty of its lawns, the splendor of its buildings, the extent of its libraries, the richness of its scientific apparatus, and the scenes which the presence of genius has made forever illustrious inspire every intelligent visitor with feelings of profound admiration...
...confined to boating. The expenditure of energy is certainly not an unmixed evil, some men are rather the better for it. There's many a lazy boy who has come to college and lost his inertness through the rivalry of college sports and gone out from his alma mater an energetic man, wholly through the influence of his efforts in the athletic arena...
...learning, nor all these together," says the Magazine, "give name and character to our noblest and best institutions of learning so much as the influence of the men who have gone out from their walls, carrying with them deep and lasting veneration and love for the alma mater. If they have the impress from the college on their characters and manners of generous and elevating instruction, and possess some peculiar, fine flavoring of life, derivable from its distinctive qualities, they will prove living epistles in its behalf and interest known and read of all men; and, if it has bound...
...once famous William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., the alma mater of Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe and Randolph, had only one student last year, and is now closed. That one student quit because he couldn't stand the blame for all the deviltry committed for miles around. - [Post...
...opportunity of seeing plays, lest the tender and inexperienced minds of the undergraduates should be corrupted by sights which they of course, never have a chance of beholding elsewhere. There was a time, as some people may remember, when the introduction of railways into the sacred precincts of Alma Mater was considered equally dangerous to the purity of the undergraduate mind. The best of the joke is that though proper plays may be forbidden, it is probably not in the power of the vice-chancellor or any body else to stop the half-circus, half-music-hall performances which always...