Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Melody of the oldtime Austrian anthem has been used as Alma Mater by at least one U.S. university: Wisconsin...
Until "Denny" publishes the name of his Alma Mater, De Pinna stands approved. The above institutions are the leading "prep" schools of America...
...play football?" but "Can he dance?" is the question the college girl asks today. No admiring throng of females trails the football heroes from the Stadium. The husky halfback who risks his neck and limbs for his alma mater might just as well spend his time learning the black bottom, as far as the girls are concerned...
...joined the crowd in what was labelled the cheering section. True, it had the pre-whistle appearance of one: row upon row of potential cheerers, five energetic cheerleaders and a Band which has no equal in the college world. The cheering section of my Alma Mater never numbered over 499 effective voices, but many times it has been heard for five miles. The so-called Harvard cheering section of Saturday must have numbered over 2000; I doubt if it was heard beyond the Yard and after Purdue scored a listener in the Square could not have heard it. In vain...
...Harvard, you are being victimized by insidious propaganda. One Mr. Schierling of the Business School and Mr. George Ade, slang fablist extraordinary, Purdue alumni both have written lugubriously in the CRIMSON concerning their Alma Mater's chances today. But Mr. Schierling and Mr. Ade are chuckling up their respective sleeves. They don't really believe that "Purdue" is an old French word meaning "lost". Their motives, I suspect, are basely commercial...