Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dupont Circle. President Coolidge's son John was home from Amherst for a ten-day spring vacation. ¶ At noon, one day last week, at the executive offices at the White House, the President formally received the members of the musical clubs of his alma mater, Amherst. At teatime, Mrs. Coolidge and son John received them informally at No. 15 Dupont Circle; in the evening, applauded them generously from a box in Continental Hall. President Coolidge, no music-lover, did not attend the concert. ¶ Mrs. Coolidge, colorfully attired in a dark red suit, was guest of honor...
...dozen universities filed out on the stage, dropped their chins, eyed their leader and gave vent, first to a song of their own choice, then to the required piece-"The Lotus Flower," it was this year, by Robert Schumann- and last to what newsgatherers love to call an "alma mater." Music Critic Olin Dowries of the New York Times, introduced by Dr. Walter Damrosch, presided over a board of judges which marked the young gentlemen's tone, diction, pitch, ensemble, interpretation. Conferring afterwards, the judges declared that the title had been retained by the melodious 1926 champions from Wesleyan...
...lying upon a cross with his head pillowed in a woman's lap. According to the traditional position of the feet of the Crusader he was one of those who never reached Jerusalem, those who did so being traditionally represented with their feet crossed. The woman may typify Alma Mater as well as those women who gave their best to a great cause and made their lonely grief their glory. The two figures symbolize mutual sacrifice...
...salesman. But his pious mother and the Baptist Church have given him everything except any longing for decency and kindness and reason." So they, and his well-developed thirst, lust and cowardice, drive him into the ministry. The first page finds him drunk in a saloon near his alma mater, Terwillinger College. Needing a fight, he lurches into a soap-box crowd that a pimpled Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned campus bully with his boasted amours and loud contempt, get religion? The pipsqueak fawns and prays...
...Score: Exeter, 44; Harvard 1930, 40. Field Goals: Hemebright S. Mater 6, Thompson 2, Holloway, Samborski, Wenner 5, Larne 5, Ward 4, Waterman 3, Lewis. Goals form Foul: Hemelright 3, Maier, Thompson, Friend, Holloway, Samborski, Waterman 3, Larue. Referee: Sonders. Time: 20 minute halxes, 5 minute overtime. St. paul's 5, Harvard 0. Rees defeated Harlie, 3-1; Brackieridge defeated Sheton, 3-0; Holbrock defeated Ware, 8-1. Ingrahan defeated Davis, 8-0; Whitehead defeated Gretash...