Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before going to Swarthmore, Raymond Walters had been registrar and English instructor at Lehigh University, his Alma Mater (1907). An American Legionary, onetime associate editor of School and Society, he is a member of the board of managers of the famed Bethlehem (Pa.) Bach Choir, about which he wrote a book...
...apart from these general criticisms, there is the mater of organization, upon which you have expended more praise than upon almost any other aspect of Harvard University existence. Why are weekly quizzes given to the non-honor men for almost the whole length of the year? And, worse, why must those men who have shown themselves capable of honor work in the self-vaunted most difficult undergraduate course be afflicted with regular bi-weekly hour exams? The excess study required by the average man in the course over that generally given with a full course is proverbial; the conference...
...when he sees his college taking in all this easy money he sees no reason why he should not receive something for the hard work which brings so much money into the college till. At this point comes the bootlegging alumnus, filled with ardor for the success of Alma Mater, ready to subsidize the young athlete by dark and devious methods...
...Holy Joe" McKee, grave, handsome, scholarly, was born & bred in the sprawling Bronx north of the Harlem River. As a boy he sold newspapers. At Fordham University he was an honor graduate. Before studying law he taught Latin and Greek at his Alma Mater, English in one of the city's high schools. He still writes magazine articles under the name of James W. Dawson. A good Democrat, he is not a Tammany man. His political mentor is New York's Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and Roosevelt supporter. In 1925 he was first elected...
...TIME, by any chance, be fearful of the effect on its readers of the knowledge that the Socialist presidential nominee is well thought of by at least his Alma Mater...