Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Loafer obtained views of Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle, quoted Prof. William Lyon Phelps there-anent: " 'My eyes filled with tears. . . . The features of the skyline change as rapidly and as tenderly as the face of a breathing alma mater, beholding her children. . . . The buildings stand in the midst of traffic, a monument to the life of the spirit?they are as accessible...
...moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater and old God. Red Hot Mama?...
...second inning, giving the New Hampshire nine a two run lead, and Barbee, the twirling ace of the Harvard Freshmen, had been slightly spiked in covering first base in the next inning and had been forced to retire. Linscott replaced him in the box against his former Alma Mater and, although another run slipped across in the seventh frame, he had control of the situation at all times, striking out eight men in the six innings...
Though I am unable to point to an Alma Mater of my own, recent facts and figures demonstrate that the trained and logical thinker in the executive's chair is being drawn more and more from the ranks of college men. This is particularly true of bank and railroad presidents. There is no reason why it should not be equally true of elective or appointive political places. When candidates for and incumbents of such offices are not made the victims of shameless abuse and willful misrepresentation, we may find more college and university men entering public life...
...have a college of diplomacy (TIME, May 12). They agreed that it would be most appropriate to dedicate such a college to that eminent international servant, the late Walter Hines Page, U. S. War-time Ambassador to England, and to establish the college as an adjunct of his alma mater, John s Hopkins University. Plans arose, went forward...