Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LAWRENCE (D.H.) St. Mater...
...thought what you wrote was so. You were indignant that the boys of your old alma mater should be treated so. You just didn't know that Holy Cross men do not bite football players. You didn't know that one of the sweetest football relationships in history is that of Harvard and Holy Cross. You didn't know that Holy Cross men would scorn poor sportsmanship. They are a great group. We know them. Harvard, a great group, knows them. It was just that you, an individual, did not know them...
...likewise the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, is comparable to any. The Universities of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia have buildings and grounds which could scarcely be finer in cultural and historic atmosphere. The College of Charleston (S. C.) is without a peer among city colleges. My own alma mater, the University of the South (the Oxford of America) at Sewanee, Tenn., with its 10,000-acre campus, the largest in the U. S.. yet one of the smallest colleges (30 men), with its Magdalen College Tower and other Gothic buildings, can be ranked with Yale's Harkness...
Writing in the current Harpers magazine, Olaf Axelgaard (a convenient pseudonym) examines the "scholastic tourist trade" and finds it sadly wanting. He tells amusing stories of incompetent loafers who wander around the continent, and return to the welcoming arms of an alma mater hypnotized by the "music of the Sorbonne." There has been a and decadence; fifty years ago, the writer claims, the American group studying in Europe were a driving force in education. Now the "hrummagen scholarship" has caused the "goddess Alma Mater to resemble the bitch goddess of William James." According to this authority, the average student goes...
More college graduates among organized nudists claim Harvard university as their alma mater than any other institution, according to the Dakota Student. --Oklahoma Daily...