Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stop, for a moment, and cast a sentimental glance backward. The Senior, about to take a last bathetic farewell of all that has gone to make up his University Atmosphere for Four Long Years, may be pardoned if, for the moment, he counts himself educated, and gives to Alma Mater all the credit for Making Him What He is in regard to Culture and Intelligence...
Professor J. L. Lewes, who graduated with the degree of A. B. from Washington and Jefferson in 1888, and was awarded the degree of A.M. in 1903 and Ph.D. in 1905 by the University left late last night for his old alma-mater, where it is expected there will be added to his list of honorary degrees that of LL.D...
...colleges have been held by the phantasm of athletic supremacy for the last forty or fifty years is significant of little more than the extremes to which new ideas can be driven. Prior to about 1860 sports were not generally indulged in for the greater glory of Alma Mater. When the value of organized athletics was recognized, however, and the advantages of the element of extramural competition became apparent, the grotesque shapes to which the theory of mons sana in il pore sano was twisted by short sighted enthusiasts seemed to indicate on unreasoning fanaticism. Instead of being directed with...
Paul Leroy Robeson, of the 1918 Rutgers football eleven, was on Walter Camp's all-American eleven. Incidentally, he was Phi Beta Kappa, with one of the highest scholastic records ever made at his Alma Mater. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School, but theatrical interests have so far kept him from the practice of Law. As an amateur, he has played the title role in Simon the Cyrenian, by Ridgely Torrence, and the leading male role in Taboo, opposite Margaret Wycherly in Manhattan and Mrs. Patrick Campbell in England. For some weeks he was a professional...
...college experiences., his publishers add, have been at the University of California, his alma mater; Harvard, from which he took an A.M., degree; Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Labor Union College, Dartmouth, and again Brown, where he is now an instructor in English...