Word: maters
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Harvard conferred a single honorary A.M. in each of the years 1709, 1710, and 1712. These notations bring the record up to 1714, when Harvard adopted the custom of granting on the application of graduates of other colleges the same degree they had received from their own Alma Mater, and such applicants made up most of the recipients of honorary Harvard degrees for almost a century. This list of honorary degrees granted ad eundem gradum includes the names of many notable persons, but the College authorities gradually came to the conclusion that the practice was not a worthy...
Your reference in TIME, Feb. 23, p. 22, of the fame of Groton School and its chapel which suffered depredations last spring reminds me of a tradition at my alma mater, the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., sometime known as ''the Oxford of America...
...Gothic spires rose over the Isis it has been the pleasant custom of the undergraduates of Oxford to purchase their doublets and smallclothes, their ales, wines, liquors and later their cigars, "on tick'' (credit). It is an equally venerable custom for Oxford undergraduates to leave their Alma Mater heavily in debt to the merchants of the city...
...trouble with the CRIMSON, we suspect, is that its editors awoke one fine morning this week to find their alma mater outdone for once in a matter involving undergraduate reform. Instead of haling Penn, a genuine leader in this respect, the CRIMSON boys tried to be sarcastic. It is unfortunate for them that their intended sareasm resulted in a sort of stupidity rarely displayed in their editorial columns. Cornell Daily...
...heart of Philadelphia . . . decorations and murals by Maxfield Parrish . . . only college production to play two solid weeks in metropolitan (Philadelphia) theatre . . . renowned for its dancing, chorus & solo . . . 1930 production John Faust, Ph.D. acclaimed by New York critics as most remarkable piece of satire in years . . . donators to alma mater of unit of dormitories bearing its name...