Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate that in the Glee Club's effort to do something really worth-while, it is met by disapprobation from a few unrepresentative stand-patters who have no real interest in the mater, but dislike to see any radical changes made without protesting. The Harvard Glee Club can always return to doing the things that any glee club does. But is it not fairer and more reasonable for those who have any interest in the matter at all, to support, or at least to retrain from maligning, a movement whose aim among other things, is to place the name...
...know, there is no indisposition on the part of the graduates to keep on attending to the job. On the contrary, there is a profound conviction among Yale men that they should continue to discharge this responsibility uncomplainingly out of love for their alma mater, on the one hand, and of a realization, on the other hand, that they can never fully pay for what their Yale association gives them. In this respect the Yale Alumni Fund Association has accomplished what the endowment policy of Harvard has failed to accomplish...
...half over. For the lower classes, the outlook after June is merely another vacation or mayhap temporary summer employment, but for the all important Senior life assumes a different aspect. Exposed to a college education for four years, and properly equipped with an unintelligible Latin diploma from his Alma Mater, he bids adieu to Cambridge and leaves for what...
This institution has a wealth of history behind it, and I have often wondered why some lecture course was not given to acquaint all the students with an intimate knowledge of their alma mater. I am sure that there would be plenty of students who would be only too glad to avail themselves of any opportunity the college would give them in this direction...
...feel a partiality toward the grantor of my later degree," said Mr. Gillett in his opening words after speaking of his alma mater, Amherst, and his Law School studies here, "that makes me favor it in its sports and games, which I still find as much interest in as I did many years...