Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since graduation from Harvard. MacKaye has become one of the widely known playwrights in America, and is the author of over 20 plays pageants, and books on the theatre. His best known plays are "A Thousand Years Ago", "The Scarecrow", "Mater", "This Fine-pretty World", and "Kentucky Mountain Fantastics". Of his books on the theatre, "Epoch The Life of Steele MacKaye" is his outstanding product
Dartmouth men were glad to learn, last week, that Edward Kimball Hall, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., chairman of the intercollegiate football rules committee, was at last to fulfill his longtime ambition: to teach at his alma mater, whence he was graduated in 1892.† Intimates of Mr. Hall knew that he was as anxious to live in Hanover as he was to teach there. At Dartmouth he will lecture on industrial relations, business management, public utilities, in the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance. Incipient Pedagog Hall will not have to worry about teacher...
...know that almost every college undergraduate of the "Kollege Kut Klothes" type brags of the enormous quantity of hard liquor consumed at his Alma Mater. The general attitude is one which is worth investigating and certainly is serious enough to demand preventative measures of some kind if actually as bad as the "wets" paint...
...face of 6,000,000 approving signatures, may I subscribe mine as opposed to the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem? Should not such a song bear the same relation to the nation that the alma mater song bears to the college? Viewed from this angle, could anyone imagine the inclusion in, say, Fair Harvard, of lines and allusions to a dramatic forward pass or touchdown in the Yale game of 1901? In just this way does the Star Spangled Banner, splendidly patriotic though it be, but manifestly a battle song, commemorate a specific event in a specific...
...will lasted ten years. 'Pifex, now become a sour and suspicious recluse, won. He kept his window shades down. Cats were the only guests at his table. Lawyers were his only acquaintances. In 1892 he was writing to the class secretary of his "old love for our Alma Mater." He left the bulk of his estate for the erection of those three Smith Halls, James Smith, Percy Smith and George Smith Halls, where the freshmen are gathered. New York Times...