Word: maters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seeing the Cardinal: "As a tribute to his personal heroism during the war, this committee hopes to be able to assure Cardinal Mercier, before he returns to Belgium, that the fund has been completed for the building and equipment of a library for the University of Louvain--his alma mater to take the place of that destroyed by the invading German armies...
...appreciate the work of such a society. How many realize what the expenses of upkeep are? While the Endowment Fund taxes the alumni heavily, for the external improvement of their Alma Mater, little is asked of those students now at the University, and their part if anything, is that of upholding the interests and activities of Harvard from within...
Many of Greater Boston's approximately 11,000 graduates have not visited their alma mater recently and have expressed a desire to familiarize themselves with the Harvard of today, its present conditions and imperative needs before they visit their college associates of other days and their business and social intimates and acquaintances of the present as fund team members...
...Lippincott, who is Penn. Alumni Secretary, has had unusual opportunities, as well as natural inclination to accumulate the principal facts and traditions from the point of view of a Pennsylvania man long connected with his Alma Mater...
Harvard has the facilities and the courses which make her a particularly desirable university for this national need. One thing she lacks: advertisement. It is the fault of Harvard graduates that their confidence in the Alma Mater's superiority never permits them to explain her advantages. But because her advantages are so well understood by them is no assurance that others understand. Harvard needs the southerner and westerner. Unless she is to dwindle into a local university she must recruit more of her sons from the great regions beyond New England. They bring a new point of view which stimulates...