Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fable and fancy will send two of its foremost citizens. George Ade, whose "Fables in Slang" delighted American and European readers of two decades ago, and George Barr McCutcheon, creator and king of the realm of Graustark, will be the two authors who claim Purdue as their Alma Mater, while J. T. McCutcheon, the cartoonist, will complete the trio of alumni which will carry the Purdue colors into the Stadium...
...fisted whites, was dismissed from the woodpile by a knockout at the hand of Paolino Uzcudun. The place of Mr. Wills was last week acquired by George Godfrey, 228½-pound blackamoor actor* of Leiperville, Pa. Mr. Godfrey disposed of Monte Munn, onetime Nebraska legislator, onetime wrestler, whose alma, mater is the University of Nebraska. Messrs. Godfrey & Munn were scheduled to fight twelve rounds. The referee checked the proceedings in the fourth, out of sympathy for Mr. Munn. He had been knocked flat in the third for the count of nine; was tired, bloody, outclassed...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. He and his father have given more than a half billion dollars to general education, disease prevention and like social factors. They make no stint of their giving. Yet the younger John D. Rockefeller, at the 153rd commencement exercises of Brown University, his alma mater, last week forced himself to declare that the time is close when wealthy men will find themselves unable to keep up with the demands of education institutions for gifts...
Cleopatra discusses everything from Greek philosophy to Tennessee evolution, and always she manages to insinuate the worst. Only at intervals does she make some mater-of-fact statement which catches the reader's fancy and conveys more truth then all of her long dissertations. For example, she says: "At the slave bazaar I also purchased a negro porter and a Greek philosopher. I paid five thousand sesterces for both of them --a most exorbitant price...
...Moore '93, manager of the University football team in '91 and '92, for many years a constant and fearless contributor to pioneer athletic policies, a member of the Football Rules Committee for 12 years, and who, for 16 years as Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association of his alma mater has rendered conspicuous service to Harvard and to many other colleges. This Committee is deeply appreciative of his loyal service and his honest criticism...