Word: maters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enthusiastic alumnus of Trinity has undertaken to build at his own expense for his Alma Mater a large building for tennis courts, walking and running matches, base-ball...
...corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons, lawyers - in the different departments which our Alma Mater provides for our use. We draw students from all over the world; no college - not even Harvard - has men from so many foreign countries. Two-thirds of the States of the Union are represented on our rolls. Alumni who have studied abroad can testify that they have seen a passage...
...that the New Year has brought nothing for us. For the first time in the history of the University has our Alma Mater gone into the extravagance of presenting her foster children with a Christmas present. Massachusetts 3 has been adorned with window shades, an extravagance which some conservatives may be ready to condemn, but which no former sufferer from Phoebus' rays will not hail with delight. Since the University has been ready to do so much for our comfort, the sanguine among us may hope to see plank-walks throughout the yard before the twentieth century dawns...
...witnessed the pandemonium of the Oxford Encaenia could not fail to marvel that these things could be. The Harvard undergraduates no doubt felt the responsibility of the occasion. They were taking their part in a great celebration, and were doing their duty to themselves and their Alma Mater. Nothing could exceed the order with which they entered the theatre in a long procession and took their places. It was impossible not to feel that the greater freedom allowed to American undergraduates led them to recognize earlier than do English youths the responsibilities of manhood." We cannot help smiling...
...with sincere pleasure that we read of the intended celebration of our younger sister, Columbia; and our pleasure is the most sincere because we ourselves have just been eating the birthday cake of our own beloved alma mater. Though adversity and prosperity - and she has had a large dose of both - Columbia has always held up her head with the proudest. Contending as she has done, against the many disadvantages which are sure to attend a college situated in the heart of a great city, she has honorably proved her right to existence; she has gradually been shaking...