Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Among the guests of the evening were President Eliot, General W. T. Sherman, Prof. G. H. Balmer, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Chauncey M. Depew of Yale, Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of Columbia, and General Charles J. Paine. President Eliot responded eloquently to the toast "Our Alma Mater." Among other things he said that Harvard men were not so anxious for victory as they were to play fairly, and suggested that some other means be selected for competition than athletic sports. He was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause, whether for his sentiments or himself is unknown. Mayor...
This action is another of the many illustrations of the enthusiastic love of Alma Mater that characterizes not only the undergraduates and recent graduates, but even those who were in Yale back...
...necessary to perpetuate the scientific fame of Asa Gray. It is well, however, that generations of scholars yet unborn may thus be able to gaze upon the gentle features of a man whom no one has yet surpassed in the lustre which he has shed upon their Alma Mater...
...dollars a year in scholarships will truthfully attest. It is a notorious fact that its corps of professors and instructors is worse paid than at many of the smaller colleges, and yet they refuse the most tempting offers ot go elsewhere, sacrificing themselves for the love of their alma mater. And still the hue and cry continues, "Don't go to Harvard unless you are rich." It is impossible to see how such a mistaken impression about a place should exist where, in the very heart of its life, we find enshrined the spirit of Spartan poverty and simplicity...
...Pilgrim" of the Fall River Line. Four or five cars were specially reserved for the men through the foresight and care of Mr. Palmer, and they were speedily packed with as jolly a crew as ever went forth from these classic halls to discomfort Yale and back their alma mater. As the train moved out of the depot, cheer after cheer went up from every voice, the manly basses of the upper-classmen being occasionally interspersed with the timid squeak of the freshmen. People stared and glared and wondered what it all meant, but when informed by the ubiquitous mucked...