Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells College (women only) in Aurora, N. Y., alma mater of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, last week inducted as its eighth president one of its own trustees, sober, pudgy William Ernest Weld, 55, Presbyterian minister, authority on India. Since 1929 Dr. Weld had been economics professor and dean of the college of the University of Rochester...
...public. That the racket of proving that college football as a racket is interminable was suggested again last week by an article by solemn Sportswriter John R. Tunis in the American Mercury. Last summer, in a book called Was College Worth While? Harvardman Tunis saluted his alma mater's tercentenary by trying to show that most of his 1911 classmates were failures (TIME, Sept. 14). In More Pay for College Football Stars, Sportswriter Tunis announced that college teams throw games, proposed dividing U. S. colleges into professional, semiprofessional and amateur groups, delicately assigned 100 U. S. institutions...
...White House press party to set up telegraph wires on the spot. So poor were the arrangements that some reporters accompanying the president could not squeeze into the hall. Veteran presidential companies can't recall when a chief executive was so thorough rebuffed as FDR was at his alma mater. In his manner and in his cart address joshing Harvard for its dislike of democratic presidents Mr. Roosevelt gave...
...track. He graduated from high-school and minor-league college football coaching in 1927, when he became head coach at Tulane. At Tulane, as at Minnesota, his teams were noted for efficiency in the second half, effective scoring plays, tight goal-line defense. Recalled to work for his alma mater, Bierman had as assistants George Hauser and Albert Baston. They had played with him on the 1915 team which won Minnesota's last Big Ten title until...
...action of A. Lawrence Lowell's committee in upholding the conviction of Sacco & Vanzetti in 1927, the pamphlet was signed by such Harvard Reds as Powers Hapgood, Heywood Broun, John Dos Passes, Stuart Chase, who wanted to know "what happened to the mental processes of ... Alma Mater's President...