Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world-wide fame under the name of "Memorial Hall." Yesterday was Memorial Day. The hall and the day are memorials of the dead soldiers of the civil war. One represents the recognition the graduates of a university gave to their brave classmates, to the sons of the same Alma Mater; the other represents the recognition a people give to the valor and the honor of their sons, brothers and fathers. There is one difference between the two: The recognition of Harvard University ended the day that hall was dedicated; the other goes on from year to year, increasing...
...contemptible emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself a foe to its literary seniours." (The Lyceum was published by members of the senior class.) And they continue: "Such has been the treatment which we have received, undeservedly, we trust, from those of the sons of Alma Mater, who, standing in immediate proximity to us, should have been a force on the right hand and on the left of their brothers to protect their reputation and assert their merit." "Harvard indifference" again, we hear Snodkins whisper! They truly claim, I think, "that the poetico-bombastick style of newspaper eloquence...
Having proved itself unworthy to be ranked among the other classes in Columbia, and having brought great disrepute on the fair fame of its Alma Mater, the news of its death will be welcomed by the colleges in general...
...went abroad to fit himself for the professorship of modern languages, to which his alma mater had appointed him. He returned to America and assumed the professorship at Bowdoin until 1835, when he was appointed by the faculty to fill the place of Mr. Geo. Ticknor, the professor of belles-lettres at Harvard University. In consequence of his appointment, he made another visit to Europe in the summer of 1835. While abroad his wife died, and Mr. Longfellow immediately returned home. In 1843 he married Miss Appleton of Boston, and took up his residence at the old Cragie house...
When Alma Mater was the toast...