Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...else could raise §15,000,000 for one of our 400 colleges? And he'll get five million more for Alma Mater Yale...
...Brown University Athletic Council learns with deep regret of the sudden and untimely death, of Major Fred W. Moore, for more than twenty years Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association. Major Moore's services to his Alma Mater have been many and varied. His career has been devoted to the promotion of wholesome rivalry and clean, vigorous sportsmanship. To him athletics existed not only to build the body but to train the mind and spirit. He knew well that truth and fair play can be taught no where better than on the gridiron or a diamond...
...hundred colleges of the United States have cooperated in compiling a new intercollegiate song book, which is to be issued by a New York publishing house the latter part of this month. The book is the result of two year's work, and will contain the official alma mater songs, the principal football songs, and the songs that have proved favorites of colleges for the past half-century. It will contain some 275 pages...
Competition of a highly developed sort has been introduced into the business of endowment fund campaigns. The old order changeth and the prosaic pleas, "give for alma mater", and "for the interests of higher education", bow before the potency of an appeal to the sporting instinct. Stipulations and conditions involving mathematical gymnastics come not single handed but in troops, forming a kind of geometrio progression, as the Law School Fund swells. Competitive giving pays best...
...there like a lion one March "before they had horses and boats and when you wanted to go from one town to another, you had to take a train." Graduates of the Lytton Strachey school of informal biography may suspect Mr. Lardner of shoving fun at their alma mater, the way he takes liberties with prominent names and dates in trying to solve the enigma of himself in an intimate way. "The Taylor who was elected President," he says, for instance, "was Zachary Taylor." And then he goes on. "... while the Taylor that lived near us was H. N. Taylor...