Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been hovering in my mind these many years, and I do therefore hereby bequeath the books which I used in writing on Cromwell and Friedrich to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, City of Cambridge State of Massachusetts, as a poor testimonial of my respect for that alma mater of so many of my Trans-Atlantic friends and as a token of the feelings above indicated towards the Great Country of which Harvard is the Chief School...
...Author is a product of the period he writes about, has had a good journalistic bird's-eye view of it. Graduated in 1912 from Harvard (where he worked on the Lampoon with Critic Robert Benchley, Artist Gluyas Williams), he went from a teaching job at his alma mater to the Atlantic Monthly, to the late Century Magazine as its managing editor, to the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. He is now associate editor of Harper's. Though he has written much for magazines, Only Yesterday is his first book...
...been of more benefit to him than all his courses put together. Every student is looking forward to a successful career. Colleges point with pride to graduates who have attained success and won distinction. The success of graduates always redounds to the credit and honor of their Alma Mater. How necessary it is therefore that all colleges should encourage and promote any course, voluntary or involuntary, prescribed or elective, which plays an important part in bringing success to its graduates...
...with 600 students and some 3,000 alumni. Colbyites young and old were nonetheless proud and thrilled last week as they gathered on the campus at Waterville, in alumni meetings in eight cities from Maine to California, in homes where they could listen to a broadcast of their alma mater's annual football rally, Colby Night. They hoped Colby would beat the University of Maine next day (it lost, 19 to 7). But Colby Night celebrated a greater event: the first sizable gift to a campaign to rare $3,000.000. The gift, $250,000 (contingent upon raising the balance...
Left. By the late Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (TIME, Oct. 12): an estate of unestimated value (possibly $10,000,000); to his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, save for $1,130,000 in bequests to friends, relations and institutions as follows: Amherst College, his alma mater ($200,000); Smith College, whence Mrs. Morrow was graduated ($200,000); The Smithsonian Institution; Columbia University; Union Theological Seminary; the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor; Englewood charities. To the late President George Daniel Olds of Amherst College; Professor Charles Theodore Burnett of Bowdoin College; onetime Dean Frederick James...