Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fitting that Dr. Murlin. should have the opportunity to confer a degree upon the first lady of the land just at this time. After Christmas, Dr. Murlin, honorably released (TIME, Oct. 6), leaves Boston University to assume the presidency of his alma mater, De Pauw University (Greencastle, Ind.). Last week, the Boston trustees voted Dr. Murlin an honorarium of $5,000 in appreciation of a 13-year administration during which the University grew from a body of 1,347 students to one of over 12,000. At the same time, the trustees appointed as Dr. Murlin's temporary successor Bishop...
...error of the last two issues of TIME which, as an interested reader and subscriber, it occurs to me you would like to set straight. You in each issue refer to the football team of the University of California as the "Golden Whales." Any team from this, my alma mater, is known as the ''Bears," less frequently as the "Golden Bears." The name comes from the fact that the Grizzly Bear is our State animal, so to speak, being a chief feature of our coat of arms and the Great Seal of the State...
...flexible administration in every detail. Educational it confronts a well high insoluble problem, that of teaching modern scientific methods without neglecting the humanities, and of inculcating a liberality of mind that stops short of destructive radicalism. Conceivably, the graduate, in the intervals of carnival rejoicing, might accuse his Alma Mater of sacrificing teachers of might to a balanced budget, of accumulating laboratories while the classics decay, of grinding the face of liberalism beneath the heel of the business man's conservatism. Such things have been. But to upbraid it for including a man of any religion or of none...
...York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, says the graduate's emotions are responsible for his tyranny over dear old Alma Mater. This is especially true in athletics. If the football team wins a series of victories, the "old grad" is profuse with congratulations. If it meets defeat, every alumnus has his own pet theory of just why it happened. The coaches are to blame, or the team lacks fight, or the stands didn't give proper support. Whatever his theory, the graduate never falls to tell how much better it was done "in the good old days...
...attitude on the other, to quote his terms, he has been penetrating enough to embody the spirit of a senior in a fashion adapted with fine appropriateness to the occasion of commencement, and to give a truthful picture of the mental antithesis peculiar to a man leaving his alma mater. It is one of the few student poems that will linger in my memory...