Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irene Castle McLaughlin, longtime plaintiff in a divorce suit against Major Frederic McLaughlin, petitioned that their daughter Barbara, 14, be removed from Ferry Hall school in Lake Forest, Ill. (Alma Mater of Jean Harlow), transferred to an eastern school. She testified: "I visited Ferry Hall last spring and was disappointed by the class of girls there. Some of them dyed their hair. . . . One day recently, I asked Barbara to come and see me and she said she couldn't because they were going to have steak for dinner." Steak or no steak, the court ruled that Barbara should stay...
Although a Dartmouth graduate of only a few years, Fuller may well be considered eminent in his chosen filed, sensationalizing his alma mater and primarily the Indian football team. From his pen comes the torrent of Big Green propaganda we read in the Boston Press...
...student body and alumni are as proud of it as are the ones of Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. The wrongdoings of a single man could not make guilty a devoted, scholastically competent faculty and a loyal corps of students that cherish deep in their hearts the alma mater that is making them men of character and good citizens for the future. We enjoy here on this campus the liberties given to us by our forefathers in the Constitution and the Declaration of independence with more ampleness and vastness than any other student body in the nation's universities...
...years ago Lafayette College's President William Mather Lewis hit upon a plan to keep reunioning alumni sober. He invited them to free classes where they might refresh their minds and their respect for Alma Mater. Last week many another U. S. college had adopted Dr. Lewis' idea...
...Alma Mater, the great American goddess-flatulent old bawd...