Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a guess as to the outcome of the game tomorrow, for he has a wealth of college football experience behind him. He himself played in the Stadium on Carlisle teams in 1907-11 when Carlisle won two of the games and later was assistant coach of his Alma Mater. The United States is his special territory in football coaching experience, since he has helped teams at Washington State, Purdue, Stanford and in numerous high schools...
...superstition and stupidity. In these days of stress, when the world is struggling in a storm that threatens to destroy it, the sons of Fair Harvard charge you to remember, that if our civilization is to survive, one of the bulwarks of its salvation will be our Alma Mater, if by wise guidance she stands a firm oasis for straight thinking, courage, and high ideals. G. R. Agassiz...
...between Garden Street and Jim's Place of a winter evening. From among such various tugs of influence and tradition, he has emerged with a balance and soundness rare in the professional student, and an eclectic view. Though he has a great and natural affection for his first Alma Mater, interesting himself much in its affairs as an alumnus, he considers that Harvard and the Harvard undergraduate far more developed intellectually than their counterparts at New Haven. From Oxford he returned without the customary preciosities; the way English is taught there he deems even worse than the Harvard methods...
Nicholas Roberts, graduate of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in the class of 1901, has done much for his alma mater. In 1918, risen to be vice president of famed S. W. Straus & Co., the bondhouse that advertised "44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor," he rallied the spirits of Eli with a great party for the Yale football team, "win, lose or draw," in his barn at Montclair, N. J. Nick Roberts' barn party speedily became a famed annual event. To it was added an additional ceremony, the presentation of a bowl to distinguished alumni...
Joseph Rochemont Hamlen: A true friend of the University, who has brought the Alma Mater and the Alumni closer together by telling her their thoughts, and showing to her sons their mother's face...