Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oglethorpe University of Atlanta is to construct upon its grounds a replica of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, alma mater of James Oglethorpe, founder of the Georgia colony. A legacy of $275,000 to this end was left by Mrs. Robert J. Lowry, of Atlanta, in memory of her husband, prominent banker and business man. President Jacobs, of Oglethorpe, has sailed for England to obtain pictures, plans, specifications of Corpus Christi. And when the Lowry memorial is completed it will house the Lowry School of Banking and Commerce. It is just possible that the original plans and specifications of Corpus Christi...
...alumnus may let all the intervening commencements slip by with hardly a thought for his perennially expectant Alma Mater. Not so the twentieth. The reasons are fairly obvious. At forty-one or forty-two years of age even a human dynamo feels strongly the temptation to pause for breath and take a look backward. He discovers then a strong curiosity concerning his forgotten classmates. How do they look after twenty years. How much have they got? What do they know? It may be assumed that he has attained by now to what he considers a respectable position in life. Hence...
...college press can perform a most valuable service by enhancing this view and so giving the student that much less to get over after he leaves the halls of his Alma Mater...
Christy Mathewson, greatest baseball pitcher of alltime: "Bucknell University, my alma mater, has notified me that my son, Christy, Jr., may matriculate there next fall...
...Ferdinand Seeger, noted throat specialist, died in New York of pneumonia at the age of 75, closing a career of remarkably able and disinterested service. He was known not only in this country but abroad, and had degrees from 32 medical schools, including his alma mater, Heidelberg. At one time he was decorated by the Czar of Russia for saving the life of one of the Russian Princes; at another, he refused the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York in order to continue his medical work Although he treated many of the rich, he was noted in Manhattan...