Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood feud or simply a case of remarkable devotion to Alma Mater, the University has found itself with a larger inheritance than either of Dr. Chauncey's two brothers...
...importance. Harvard's heterogeneous brood is scattered throughout the world. Thus, except for a brief splurge at their twenty-fifth reunion, far too few of this brood can ever get back to the old Yard or the new Houses for a visit or renewal of contact with their Alma Mater; business pressure, distance, inertia, or a thin wallet sec to that. Yet it is vitally necessary that Harvard alumni do maintain a thread of contact with the University from year to year. This makes for a stronger Harvard, and for better graduates in the future. Furthermore, it gives graduates...
Since Yale put their contests on the air, numerous letters of congratulation from Eli graduates all over the country have poured into New Haven, expressing appreciation of the opportunity thus offered them to keep in touch with their Alma Mater. To loyal alumni, who live too far away to witness any of Yale's football games, this innovation has been a great pleasure. Harvard, by stubbornly refusing to follow suit, is doing a great disservice to its own graduates...
Last spring big, blond Henry Lamar found himself in a double dilemma. As a University of Virginia alumnus, he had to see a Harvard boxing team, coached by him, meet the scrappers from his former alma mater; and as a Harvard coach, he had to watch his team fight its last intercollegiate match...
...Yale man," the editors are "glad to say," "is a somewhat happy medium between the two extremes of the big three. He is proud of his alma mater's name, but he is not like the weary Cantabridgian, weighed down by the responsibility of belonging to America's Oldest College, and, while he is still one of the just-a-big-boy school, he manages to escape the callowness of the Princeton man. The Yale man is a lively, boisterous, generous host, and the most rahrah college man cast of the Alleghenies . . . He is apt to be too clothes conscious...