Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verse I am incapable of criticising; the reviews and the editorials are well-written. I object bitterly to "Mater Felixissima";. perhaps some proof-reader was guilty. But why is it that the various articles produce the impression of being trimmed to a fixed length? Is it due to editorial excisions, or is it a habit acquired in the process of writing compulsory themes...
First, however, let me state that I am a Harvard man--for three years and more an undergraduate in the class of '19--now a member of the class of '22 at West Point. I have the greatest respect, admiration, and love for my old Alma Mater, but I also have the same for my new. Consequently, I can ill conceal my displeasure at. Dr. Eliot's remarks, coming from a man whose opinions are so highly respected. I believe he is sadly misinformed...
Does a college education destroy initiative, and individuality, the something in certain men which makes them stand out as supreme geniuses, or does it cause the finished product, the college graduate to emerge from his own particular Alma Mater with the same ideas and the conventional outlook upon the problems of life as is possessed by the thousands of other youths who also are college bred? Does college kill the genius by making him conventional, and does it make the fool over, because he has been trained in the ways and thoughts of intelligent men? If so, education...
...western college dailies. The different views presented are interesting. Some believe that it is the result of the war and unsettled conditions, other attribute it to the tendency in recent years toward too many social activities, while a few hold that the modern college student comes to his Alma Mater without any definite purpose and never acquired one, or as one editor puts it "college-bred seems to mean a four year's loaf." However, they all agree that it is a fact that college men and women are narrow...
...only will class spirit be cemented, but the close sympathy and support so vital to the life of the University will be gained. The contact of the average graduate with the alma mater is not intimate, and in the active life of the business world the tendency to drift away from college affairs is marked. No more acutely was this realized than in the recent work on the Endowment Fund...