Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years that followed, the University of Chicago crumbled slowly; in 1886, the year after Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed went back to become a Doctor of Divinity, it became extinct. This made Dr. Goodspeed sad and thoughtful; he saw the need for a successor to his small and defunct alma mater, a successor which should be larger, intellectually more potent, better endowed, nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed a university, why such a university deserved strong financial support. After listening to Dr. Goodspeed, Mr. Rockefeller said that...
...Scott Fitzgerald, whose first novel carried the name of Princeton before the public eye in a story which brought on a flood of imitators, has written a sketch of life at his alma mater for a current magazine, College Humor,--but the name has no bearing on his article. For it is not a humorous article, nor does it have that mixture of sharpness and sentiment which marked the time when "the tide of war rolled up the sands where Princeton played." He writes not now as a very recent graduate, but from the distance of over a decade...
...Hear that Tiger roar! Far above Cayuga's waters, Watch the Red Team score. Three, cheers for Old Nassau, my boys, Three cheers, and one more yell, O hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Hail, all hail, Cornell...
Playing among themselves Western youths shoved, dodged, went proudly home to show black and blue spots to Alma Mater. Michigan dedicated a brand new back yard that cost $2,000,000, asking Ohio State over to play in it. Ohio State went home, morose because Michigan, boisterous host, won 21-0. Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0. Notre Dame, wild Irish children, rubbed Indiana...
...Harvard-Dartmouth athletic events was contributed by the adherents of the Green after the final whistle Saturday, and went partially unrecognized, or worse still was misinterpreted in some quarters. The visiting cheering section had been specifically instructed to remain in the stands until after Harvard had sung its "alma mater". And still they watched and still their wonder grew--the Crimson apparently had no song to honor its name in defeat as well as in victory. The losers were no less amazed. "What manner of men are these, who refuse to celebrate their conquest in the customary and accepted fashion...