Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Justice Holmes was appointed to the bench in 1902 he has taken a secretary every year from his alma mater. Many of them have become eminent. Charles K. Poe, first secretary, who held the position for four years, is now a bank attorney in Seattle, Wash. George Leslie Harrison is Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Others are Harvey H. Bundy of Boston, recently appointed an Assistant Secretary of State; Irving S. Olds of Manhattan; Stanley Clarke, president of St. Louis Public Service Co.; Stanley Morrison, law professor at Stanford University; Chauncey Balknap of Manhattan; Vice...
...year that Harvard's alumni gather together begins today with the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in St. Louis. As at commencement time, when the Alumni Association meets in Cambridge, there is here sufficient opportunity for Harvard's graduates to renew their acquaintance with their alma mater and to take up in serious discussion some of the problems confronting the University and alumni alike. Although major decisions as to Harvard's policy are not in the hands of the alumni, their thorough knowledge of the task of the administration is desirable...
Hence it is that the Harvard men who died with the Central Powers have no rights at their Alma Mater now and upon no possible basis can they be entitled to equal honor with those who died with the Allies. War is too brutal, too devastating and too idiotic to be so easily smoothed over as this. The only hope of the war generations in history is to justify their fighting by the results, and if there be no results, as there cannot be if all are now considered equal, their condemnation will be terrible...
...very simple alternative suggests itself. The A and B men might well be placed in conference groups, meeting once a week or once every two weeks, and given fortnightly quizzes. This method is used with outstanding success in History 1; and the subject mater in this course is considerably more difficult than that encountered in a study of elementary economics. Such a reorganization, much needed, would be in line with the principle that "the best education is self-education," and is accord with the tutorial system now being increasingly stressed at Harvard...
...Adams (John Quincy) characterized the conferring of this degree as 'a sycophantic compliment' ", writes one of the later Jackson biographers, "and spitefully and most unjustly wrote in his diary. 'As myself, an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her diagrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammer and hardly could spell his own name...