Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hartford last week, at its first public exhibition, the Warburg-Kirstein School presented Alma Mater, a rip-roaring burlesque for which Edward Warburg wrote the scenario and Kay Swift, his comely cousin-by-marriage, the music.* Harvardman Warburg picked Yale as the scene for his collegiate horseplay. Against a backdrop depicting Portal 6 ?A of the Yale Bowl cavort John Held Jr. characters in John Held Jr. costumes. Girls appear in short leopard-skin jackets, decorated with chrysanthemums and blue satin ribbons, while Kay Swift's music blends bits of "Boola-Boola" with off-stage cheers...
...program to be presented consists of the following numbers: "The Crimson and the Green," a medley of Harvard and Dartmouth songs; "Tiger Medley," as played at Princeton with interpolation of a male chorus singing The Orange and the Black"; "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," the Cornell alma mater, to be sung by the bandsmen, accompanied by a trombone choir; "Harvardiana," and "Soldiers Field," with vocal; "Wintergreen for President"; "On Brave Old Army Team," and "West Point Alma Mater," the latter sung by the chorus; "Soldier Medley," as played at the Army Game this fall; "Gridiron King," and "Our Director"; "Yale...
Again the team will be coached by Charles N. Proctor of Dartmouth, whose assistance enabled the 1934 board men to come in third in the Eastern Downhill race, although he was unable to prevent his Alma Mater from nosing it out by a scant margin in the Tuckerman's ravine slalom race. The team is open to all men in the University, including Freshmen, and it is expected that there will be a team for each class, rather than only for the second class, as last year...
...loved to watch them. It made tears come into his eyes when they stood up and softly sung of alma mater. Gus, though he had never passed out of the eighth grade, always felt as if he were a Swanson...
...ever larger numbers of students work their way through college, it has become a mater of course to assist them with scholarships, loans, an employment, a policy which the public approves with democratic enthusiasm. So keen is this fetish for higher education for all at any cost, that even the government offers indigent scholars approximately a million and a half dollars monthly...