Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young John Coolidge left the White House, took train and sped away, to matriculate at Amherst, his father's alma mater...
...fawning boys, bespectacled spinsters and enquiring teachers to desecrate the hallowed precincts of the University with their well-meaning, but incongruous, presence. Many matters are decided during this terrible interregnum, all of which, fortunately, are of little consequence to those who adore old Oxenford as their Alma Mater...
...Lennean Society. In 1907 he was President of the Zoology Section of the British Association. He founded the Marine Biological Station at Port Erin, Isle of Man, and also the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel. In 1909 Harvard made him a Doctor of Science. In 1910 Edinburgh, his alma mater, made him Doctor of Laws. He gave largely to the scientific departments of several Universities-to Liverpool and to the University of London. At the latter institution he and his wife endowed a chair in Geology in memory of their son who was killed in the War. His several publications...
...Beach, novelist: "I accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of the Alumni Committee on Athletics of my alma mater, Rollins College, at Winter Park, Fla. Rollins alumni of the early '90s remember me as an outstanding Rollins athlete, as Captain of the Rollins baseball team in 1896, my senior year...
...Manhattan, ten University of Michigan undergraduates strode up a Grace Line gangplank, bound for Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, La Paz, Iquique, Antofagasta. Bidden guests of most of the South American Republics, the ten were escorted by two members of their alma mater's Romance Language staff. They bore with them to South American universities the good-will of Marion L. Burton, Michigan's Coolidge-nominating President. In addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading...