Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women. With these Mr. Packard puttered; he gave to the town of Warren $100,000 to build a library and, with his brother, 150 acres of land to build a park & playground. The largest of all his numerous donations was one of $1,000,000 to Lehigh University, alma mater, with which to construct and equip laboratories. Sixteen months ago illness drove James Packard to the ho pital. He stayed there sixteen months, in the same room. Then he died...
...Krueger of Swarthmore and J. J. Horner of Michigan. Horner who finished third is himself one of the spectacular weight men of Michigan track history. He later established I. C. A. A. A. A. records in the shot put event. Now, as head of Horner's great alma mater, President Little is tonight welcoming to the West his own University track team on which he starred during his college career...
...athletic fortunes of the University. His appointment as Director of Athletics was to take effect at once. Mr. Bingham was always most closely allied to the track team. After the disastrous season of the team on the einders in 1920, Mr. Bingham was called back to his alma mater to coach the track team and he lifted the University so far out of the mire that during the 1921 season only half a point separated the Crimson team from California and the intercollegiate championship...
...These men are asked to contribute to the various drives of the University, they are eligible and energetic workers at the many Harvard Clubs, and if they do root for the opposing team, do so only in the few cases where this team happens to be also their alma mater or when they are piqued at having to attend the game, unlike the Harvard College graduate, alone...
with the subject mater of the remaining chapters: "The Lungs and the Blood," "Speed, Strength and Endurance," where-in the sprinter learns that scientists can predict his times from only two or three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...