Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somebody with $50,000 in the bank recently read Michael Pupin's autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor, with the result that he donated the $50,000 to Professor Pupin's alma mater, Western Reserve University. The fund is to be used in aid of the exceptional student. The financial status of the student receiving aid is in no way to be a consideration. Said the donor: "I feel persuaded that by helping one such exceptional student, I might in reality be helping, through the student's possible success, a greater number than if my bequest were large...
...picture of this new education has been convincingly drawn, it may strike terror into the hearts of the trustees, faculty and students of existing academic institutions. Perhaps they visualize the crumbling ivy-colored walls of old Holworthy Hall and their alma mater no longer required at a time when education has become the possession of all members of society. Let them have no fear. The University must remain--as a laboratory for the Lecture-Publisher
...grounds of logic and experience the very opposite is true. In a small state college in this country, in one of the colleges in an English university, the individual is largely lost in the life of the institution. In a small college the student exists largely for his alma mater, he must sacrifice for it. But a large college exists for the student, to use as he wishes. Without holding a brief for either it is surely logical to say that heterogeneity, rather than homogeneity makes for individualism--or indifference...
...Peter Pan, Presidential wire haired fox terrier, until his private secretary, Mr. Clark, could teach the dog not to howl at night; heard that Mrs. Coolidge had accepted a canary from the American Canary Breeders' Association; received an invitation to attend the annual football game of his alma mater, Amherst, with Williams at Williamstown; wired back: "Regret I cannot accept your invitation. Am sure contest will be marked by same clean sportsmanship which has always marked relations of two colleges "; heard that the score was: Amherst, 7; Williams...
...much business to attend the big game of the Alma Mater...