Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since tendering an honorable release and a $5,000 honorarium to Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin that he might assume the presidency of his alma mater, DePauw University, after a 13-year administration in Boston (TIME, Dec. 22, 1924), the trustees of Boston University have been casting about to refill the presidential chair over which they have dominion. Bishop William F. Anderson, prelate of the Boston area of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, has filled the chair pro tempore...
...comes from Harvard and Yale . . . The remedies proposed by the Harvard and Yale dailes . . . would bring a large part of the student body into athletics, and at the same time give sufficient opportunity for intervarsity athletics as a test of the spirit to do and endure for alma mater...
...removed, much of the keen rivalry, both from the viewpoint of the spectator and the player, has been removed. They also believe that the player has not the same interest in the game when playing for money as he has when playing for the glory of his Alma Mater. That there is considerable ground for this opinion, especially as regards the last-named feature, seems certain. A number of players who are now on professional teams and were stars on their college elevens have stated that they now play the game with a different spirit. The "society" feature which leads...
...Cadets to execute a few simple little movements on such occasions is an insistent demand on the part of the public that they do so. The cadets do not do this because they enjoy it, but because they feel it a duty to the public which supports their Alma Mater...
...possible that we are reckoning without our host. For better or worse there is, in point of fact, something more to American college football than the enjoyment of sports-manship. Undergraduates really believe that to be strong and manly--and successful--in athletics reflects credit on their alma mater and that the credit of their alma mater is somehow worth while. As nowhere else in modern life, they learn obedience, discipline, fortitude. Among the "moral substitutes for war" demanded by William James intervarsity athletics should rank high. It would be sad, if, in revaluing college spirit, we destroyed...