Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sons, Descending on Cambridge and Boston 20,000 strong for the Tercentenary meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, alumni brought with them more than $5,000,000 in gifts and a number of other mementos and souvenirs for their alma mater...
...concluded: "If a skilled athlete decides to abandon inter-collegiate competition and to devote more time to his studies, he is confronted by pleading fellow students and friends, coaches, and in some instances, officers of the University, who endeavor to rouse his conscience and sense of 'duty' to Alma Mater. Few young men can resist this pressure, especially in view of the social stigma attached to the 'quitter...
...Harriet" piecemeal, spent months getting out every last tiny nerve in her corpse. As Dr. Weaver freed a length of nerve, he kept it soft and flexible by wrapping it in gauze and cotton wet with alcohol. When "Harriet" became no more than a pair of eyes, a dura mater, a spinal cord and a lacework of branching nerves, Dr. Weaver stiffened her with white paint, pinned her to a board...
...smallness of such schools as Groton and from the democratic bigness of Exeter and Andover. Last week at its 126th commencement, Lawrenceville heard good news. Capitalist Edward Stephen Harkness, ardent apostle of the House Plan who had given $26,000,000 to install it at Harvard and his alma mater Yale, had decided to make the House Plan's early home a laboratory for his second educational enthusiasm, the Conference Plan. Next year Lawrenceville, armed with a blank check signed Edward S. Harkness, will abandon classroom instruction, set an enlarged faculty to conversing helpfully with its students across polished...
THOMAS SOVEREIGN GATES: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Philadelphia, President of the University of Pennsylvania since 1930. "An eminent business executive who heeded the call of his alma mater and placed his talents at the disposal of the learned world...