Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale, a favorite topic was Alumnus Newell Martin, 75, and President Angell. Laboring under the impression that his alma mater had gratuitously urged him and his fellow Yale alumni to behave themselves at their reunions, Alumnus Martin had sat down and addressed to President Angell (via The New York Times) a tart letter on the subject of teaching old gentlemen party manners (TIME, June...
...Williams c. Aren't You Glad? E. W. Newton 5. Largo, "From the New World" Symphony Dvorak 6. Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glazounov 7. Furlana from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 8. Tufts Songs a. That Mascot P. B. Lewis b. Brown and Blue E. A. Newton c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis 9. Medley-Fantasia on Tufts Aira J. W. Morton 10. Waltz, "La Barcarolle" Waldteufel 11. Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer
...familiar words of the beloved Alma Mater song came to my ears as I approached the banquet hall where the Alumni Association of the International Correspondence School was congregating for its annual dinner. I paused. My thoughts flashed back to that day when, all unwittingly, I had made a momentous decision, which has affected my whole life...
...much rancor not generally known to the public. A section of Yale graduates has viewed with growing alarm the tendency, since 1920, to reorganize Yale out of all recognition, and the unfairly large burden assumed in the process by Mr. Harkness through his manifold benefactions to his alma mater. The sons of Eli are a stiff-necked breed and there are many who feel that for Yale to be rebuilt, reorganized and replenished by the devotion of any single graduate is unnecessary and undignified...
Longfellow and Hawthorne were graduated from Bowdoin a century ago, in commemoration of which event their alma mater has just held an institute of modern literature, attended by a score of America's foremost poets, novelists, dramatists, essayists, and scholars. The aim of this institute was to stimulate creative and artistic endeavor, especially in the colleges of New England--a memorial most in keeping with the spirit and achievement of these great figures...