Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minute to Play (Harold ["Red"] Grange). There is the usual collegiate hokum, with a big football game as the finishing liqueur. Alma Mater Parmalee needs seven points to win. Star halfback "Red" Wade sits on the sidelines because his father does not believe in rough sports and the coach thinks he ("Red") has been drinking. One minute to play -vindication-substitution-"Red" Wade has the pigskin under his arm. The Galloping Ghost is off-long strides, mighty stiff-arm, eely hips, a broken field-a touchdown, a kicked goal, and victory. "Red", of course, is vindicated before the college...
...observation car drinking in the fresh air, scenery, plaudits. At Burlington, Vt., Mrs. Coolidge's girlhood home, the President graciously yielded the spotlight to his wife, who was surrounded by a merry group of girls from the University of Vermont, the First Lady's Alma Mater. "Hello, Sally," she said. "Why, Mary, is this your boy?" All then, including Mrs. Coolidge, joined in a hearty rendition of "Champlain," the U. of V. college song, after which rustic Attorney General Sargent joined the party...
...alumni givers as public givers but an average public gift 75 per cent, higher than the average alumni gift." Who are these public givers who play so "important a giving part"? Deponent sayeth not. Yet they can only be successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation of this were lacking, it would be supplied by the fact that "the appeal for stadia" so potent with the loyal graduate, has net struck as does...
Attention is again called to Jerome Greene's recent statement on the Fund: "A subscription to the Harvard Fund is essentially an expression on the part of a Harvard man of his desire to be counted each year as doing something for his alma mater. The first and essential thing is to be thus counted. . . . The amount of the annual gift to the Harvard Fund is of secondary importance as compared with giving something, however small. Of two men having the same income, one might be justified in giving $100 a year and another only...
...consider this Harvard Fund plan a way in which the rich man and the man of moderate means can do his share and thus not only raise more money for the University, but also keep more Harvard men in touch with their Alma Mater." Franklin S. Billings, '85. Governor of Vermont...