Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores...
...Merry Widow showed Jean Harlow in widow's weeds, holding an apple stuck on a knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...
...colleagues, the critics, looked doubtfully at Walter Pach's show. The pictures were dull. There was a big fresco that Pach's Class of 1903 at the College of the City of New York had agreed to give their alma mater. In it three lumpish women illustrating the College's motto, Respice, Adspice and Prospice, symbolically wave their arms about at the past, present and future. Best of the other works were the water colors and several small portrait frescoes, notably one of his wife, Magda, all done with admirable intelligence and solid, conventional technique. There were...
...adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta in Calydon, skillfully designed by Granville Bantock; La Belle Dame sans Merci, a rambling peroration by Cyril Scott; a sonorous Stabat Mater by Cincinnati's own Martin G. Dumler...
...untried Ithacans and the Big Red crews. The Crimson will go to the line in the Varsity, Jayvee, Freshman, and 150 pound classes as will Cornell and Tech, with only Syracuse failing to bring its full complement of 36 men ready to pull or yell for the alma mater until the last ounce of energy is expended...