Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sustained by the labor of men of scholarly attainment, it is fitting that Harvard Should each year be honored by its sons through the adoption of the garb which best symbolizes its purpose and meaning. Any-one who is not willing to pay this slight tribute to his Alma Mater, must have profited but little by his four years at Cambridge...
...headed New Haven-ward--that college publicity can be of service. Propaganda and proselyting to more harm than good in their ultimate results, but sane publicity does a service to both the college and the school. By it a preparatory school boy can judge intelligently what his aim a mater should be; it will prevent a student from entering a college with whose ideals he is not in sympathy...
...listen to the same lectures on architecture or biology, is less obstreperous than elsewhere. So far as I am aware, there is little, if any, of the kind of college life typified by the guitar with the blue ribbon and the felt flag bearing the name of Alma Mater in large white letters. Neither is there any such at Oxford, Cambridge or the Sorbonne...
...that Harvard discriminates. Harvard does not throw its gates wide open for anybody; neither does it put a lock upon them. It is here for men to seek. It admits openly the principle which governs it; but it is precisely that principle which has preserved Harvard as the alma mater of leaders among men. To be a Harvard man does not mean that one has gone through that fraternizing period of sham democracy in which cane rushes and greased poles have stimulated the spirit of brother-hood; but it does mean a respect for scholarship, for the right...
...executive branch of the government. But these three institutions have provided the last three presidents in the order named, so that that they may be said to have done their share. Somebody may rise to remark that no one of these Presidents was a typical product of his alma mater which is probably true at least in the sense that the public imagination attributes characteristics to these three institutions which their representatives in the White House did not display...