Word: maters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject could a speaker choose than "Harvard in the Past"? If the History Department of the University or some college organization could arrange such a series of lectures they would incur, I believe, the lasting gratitude of the students, of the graduates, and of all friends of our Alma Mater...
...claimed that the [Harvard] Faculty became gradually more and more disgusted when they saw that the alumni of a great university like Yale could not have an annual gathering without devoting every speech to an athletic sport, to the absolute exclusion of all reference to their alma mater as an institution of learning. This feeling had become very strong when, at the meeting four weeks ago, an incident happened which was the last straw...
...fight, a nobler victory to win, and I would say to every man upon your team: Your splendid record has laid upon your sturdy shoulders another and a weightier duty. If you are to do a real and lasting service for the cause of athletics, and for your Alma Mater, you must show when you go out from her halls that there are moral and intellectual qualities which your training on the football field has fostered and strengthened. It is for you to show that as your limbs are stronger, so your minds are cleaner, your lives more sweet...
...been added to the board of editors, which before consisted of undergraduates only. The policy of the paper will not be materially changed, but its scope will be broader, and it is hoped that it will serve as a closer bond than ever between the alumni and their alma mater...
There is no doubt but that the greater part of us know all too little about Harvard,-and particularly about her past. Such a series of lectures as is suggested would not only "increase the affection of the undergraduate for his Alma Mater." It would give us all a better chance to learn some of the stories with which every one of us should be familiar, and ignorance of which must many times in after life prove a source of mortification and regret...