Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised a full-sized rumpus among undergraduates, alumni, faculty members. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, cruising in the Caribbean, heard that liberal students were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker, Ezra Cornell...
...family but born on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, "Curly" Byrd played and later coached football for his university when it was plain Maryland Agricultural College. Between seasons he rose to be assistant to the president and then vice president. He has long done many of his alma mater's political chores, an experience which should prove helpful. The board of regents fired his predecessor, Raymond Allen Pearson, last July for failing to wangle larger appropriations from the State Legislature...
...College (New York), his brothers in Theta Delta Chi didn't know whether or not they should read him out of the club. Brother Alex persisted in wearing a red fez about the house. No action was taken, however, and in 1909 Woolicott received the blessing of his Alma Mater and a Ph.B. degree...
...Roosevelt and his friend, Senator Bulkley of Ohio, who edited The Crimson when the two were schoolmates together at Harvard, the paper's editorial of Monday, criticizing the President's now famous address to Congress last Friday, must not have been very encouraging news from the old alma mater...
From the track meet at the Colombes Stadium and the steeplechase at Auteuil, to the other extreme of the marvelous Italian Art exhibit, every moment was well planned. American Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus showed great interest in the experiment and also inquired about Harvard, his alma mater, being particularly concerned with the fate of the Latin requirement which was being very much discussed at the time...