Word: maters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your news items caused me to raise my eyebrows, open my mouth and give forth a faint screech. The item reads: "As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp" (TIME, Mar. 16, Page 11). Heidelberg is my Alma Mater. I studied there from 1918 to 1921. To my knowledge, no French troops ever were stationed there; the nearest they came was Ludwigshafen on the left side of the Rhine...
...panes are decorated with a picture of St. John baptising a child, while the upper row is taken up with the coat of arms of Great Britain, flanked on one side with the shield of Harvard University, and on the other by the shield of Emmanuel College, the alma mater of John Harvard...
...Among these is a brief letter from the President written in 1869, to his son Robert Todd Lincoln '64, who was a senior at that time in the University. The self-educated President had given his son the best possible educational advantages which the country could afford. The subject mater of the letter is unimportant, but Lincoln's striking simplicity is illustrated by the envelope. On the upper left hand corner, where the stamp should be, the President had written in his homely--handwriting, A. Lincoln...
...immeasurably grieved that Mr. King has so misinterpreted the attitude of the Lampoon in its Business School Number. Mr. King takes up the standard for his alma mater with all the vehemence that we love to see in red-blooded American business men. It is such qualities that have made Harvard's Business School and such qualities which will assure that worthy dispensary, long life...
Prof. Takayanagi of Tokyo University,* in the U. S. to solicit funds for his alma mater, knocked not in vain at the door of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He had asked for financial aid on behalf of his university library, which was partially destroyed by the great Earthquake of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.), and in which 800,000 books were destroyed...