Word: maters
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Brain. Just within the bony brain case are the meninges made up of three separate coverings-the dura mater, the arachnoid and the pia mater. The dura mater (tough mother, protector) lies next to the skull and is closely connected thereto. It resembles fine, wetted parchment. Next and attached to this is the arachnoid (cobweb-formed). This is a thin, fibrous membrane, which one might compare to a slice from a rubber sponge. Through its interstices pass vital fluids. It connects the dura mater to the pia (tender, kind) mater which immediately covers the brain itself, and dips down into...
...question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money premium, and that his fair alma mater has taken to playing favorites. This is especially true of the younger alumni to whom the dollar seems more than a curiously designed symbol. And unfortunately so, for theirs is the greatest enthusiasm, and theirs will be the greatest disappointment. And it is not to be forgotten that in their...
...history of American colleges. It differs from most gifts in that there are few restrictions, the one specific direction being that there shall be "at least one enduring useful, and beautiful edifice which will constitute a fitting memorial of my gratitude to and affection for my Alma Mater...
About to cast them ruthlessly from her midst, benevolent alma mater stayed her hand, for the meanest are not to be despised. Thus the twelve Rutgers Freshmen who failed to pass their first semester courses have been raised from the ridiculous to the sublime--or perhaps to the more ridiculous. They are to go on exhibition before critical educational investigators. When Rutgers decided to retain the mentally-wayward twelve, to nurture them in a class all their own, and to engage her leading professors to teach them economics, history, mathematics and geology, she was manifestly actuated by motives ulterior...
...speaker-"main" because, though they knew his good works, they had never known his voice-was at his home in Rochester, N. Y. The Tech men eagerly awaited his words, the words of George Eastman, camera man and music lover, who had contributed over 15 millions to their alma mater yet had steadfastly refused to address a Tech audience since they first began asking him in 1916. At that, his words came from behind the barrier that space and wavelengths afford retiring natures. But to the farflung "phantom" diners they were real words...