Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanford graduate could have told you that this song has been sung at President Hoover's Alma Mater for years & years, with reference to Leland Stanford's activities in the railroad world, not Herbert Hoover's activities in the engineering world...
...pennant-waving co-ed is old Mother Oxford. In all things she behaves with dignity and decorum. Nevertheless Oxford, like any Alma Mater, needs the money of her sons. Last week if she was not actually waving her pennant, she was trying a tentative flourish. From Oxford's Chancellor, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, came a proposal to establish that most useful money-raising device, an Alumni Association. It is to be dignified with the name "Oxford Society." Promoted lately at a gathering of "representative" Oxford men, it gained notably the support of Old Oxonian Edward of Wales. Lord Grey...
Because Editor Reed Harris of the Columbia Spectator (undergraduate daily) was expelled last fortnight there was a mass meeting at the base of Columbia University's gilt alma mater statue. Rated by some a publicity-seeker, by others an able crusader, Editor Harris was conspicuous last winter with charges of professionalism in Columbia football (TIME, Nov. 23) and lately with attacks on the management of John Jay Dining Hall, whose food and sanitary conditions he claimed were poor. Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes announced that Student Harris was expelled for ''personal misconduct." But to many...
...broadside against the Yale School of Drama. In this trenchant indictment of a strictly vocational institution glorified by an attractive title into a School of arts, the writer charges that the present institution was founded by money from Wall St. Alumni for the sole purpose of advertising their alma mater through its possession of a superior School of Drama...
Because they do not wish their alma mater turned into an advanced institution where everybody studies, studies, studies, most alumni of Stanford University were pleased last week. Acting President Robert Eckles Swain announced that the trustees had voted to abandon the plan which the late David Starr Jordan, Herbert Hoover and Ray Lyman Wilbur had favored: gradual elimination of the lower divisions of Stanford to make it a higher institution like Johns Hopkins...