Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though all three of the delegations concerned with the question of stopping the naval competition--the American, the British, and the Japanese--disclaim any intention of holding up a final decision on that mater until the policy of the nations toward the Far East us stadium it has become increasingly evident that naval armament cannot be limited altogether apart from questions of national policy...
...waxed wroth over books and magazine articles which represent Princeton as a cross between a first-rate country club and a sanitarium where one may rest up after arduous week-ends. The writer of the editorial admits that there may be a few individuals who think of their alma mater in these terms; but the difficulty comes from judging the mass by the few--"unrepresentative observation" as logicians call it. Harvard has had a similar experience along a different line. A certain class of outsiders read in the papers of millionaires' sons here in the University. That settles it! Harvard...
...have changed places with respect to culture and athletic prowess;--"Yale men discussing literature, Harvard winning football games," "Doesn't that prove that something is wrong with the college?", asks the horrified Yale graduate when he hears from his younger brother, Chester Merriwell, what has happened to his alma mater...
...lighter lead with a heavier variety, perhaps due to the disintegration of the element thorium, and whether other elements, hitherto supposed to be final and invisible, may not also prove to be mixtures and thus open up a whole series of new problems as to the composition of mater, are questions to which the answers are being eagerly sought all over the world today...
...alleged Bolshevists, who demanded Dr. Hodgdon's resignation, say their dear desire is to restore their alma mater to its pristine purity, which was menaced by Dr. Hodgdon's striving to make the "poor man's Harvard" more like the real Harvard by paying money to athletes does that sinful device really persist in Cambridge? and by other "new ideas that do not jibe with the traditions of the university." The "loyal" students who supported the President organized parades and stripped for action in the best Lusk manner, but were prayerfully dissuaded from war on the local Soviet...