Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the time came last spring for Harvardman Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl to contribute toward the gift which every Harvard class makes to its Alma Mater at its 25th reunion, Adolf Hitler's rollicking piano player and shrewd Foreign Press Chief decided to make no anonymous gift. Instead he wrote to Harvard's president...
Last week's mail brought to Alumnus Hanfstaengl his Alma Mater's reply, written by young Scientist-President James Bryant Conant as follows...
...Arbor is ... Governor Comstock's alma mater, Class...
Many a conservative Dartmouth trustee and graduate shuddered at the vitriolic colors and subjects of the Mexican painter, held his peace only out of loyalty to his alma mater. That Dartmouth did not want such reticent respect from her sons, however, became evident last June when the college published a booklet proudly describing and illustrating its new frescoes. Excerpt: "That the Orozco murals should arouse controversy was anticipated and desired. . . . Whatever may be the final judgment of time on the place of Orozco and these murals in the great tradition of art. the college generation which witnessed the creation...
...Paul Engle were a Harvard graduate, he would find these words an appropriate description of his alma mater. For the last three hundred years Harvard has manufactured candidates for the "society of scholars", and today it is well equipped to oil some ten thousand of these animals, sheltered within its portals. Another Freshman Class of a thousand men will make small impression on the ceaseless tide. It will disappear under the dormitories in the Yard to show its head only at required intervals when it must produce study-cards or fill out House applications to adorn crowded files. Twice...