Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Though the writer is an English university man, he heartily concurs with you in thinking that the majority of American students, whose life-career is to be passed in their own country, will find many and good reasons for preferring his own Alma Mater...
Whom the dear Alma Mater once held in her arms...
Oxford and Cambridge are of somewhat different natures themselves, but seem alike if we compare them with the American college. But, with all their advantages, pleasures and attractions, the Harvard student will find many reasons for preferring his own Alma Mater...
...Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will surely result in a diminution of the students' affection for their Alma Mater and respect for its faculty. The resolutions were eagerly signed by all the classes, less than half a dozen men having as yet refused to put down their names. The petition will be presented to the faculty this week...
...indeed, every reason to be grateful, will take no trouble to inquire into the merits or demerits of any dispute in which Harvard is engaged, adopting that view which is the most obvious, or is presented to them first, do more to bring contempt and discredit upon their Alma Mater in one year than undergraduates could do in fifty...