Word: maters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alumni, like to feel that our alma mater is not a place to reform "bad boys," but a school of opportunity for boys who need a chance. . . . Maybe I am quibbling with words but the shift of emphasis is important to me and to my fellow alumni. Most of us are proud of having been connected with such a worthwhile school. . . . W. E. STEPHENSON Chicago
Nothing Doing in Owosso. In his native Michigan, on the last lap of his trip, he had encountered a distinct coolness among Republican state leaders. To be sure, they came to visit him at Owosso, where he spent four days with his mother, Mrs. Annie Dewey (whom he calls "Mater"). With Arthur Vandenberg on their minds, Michigan Republicans were noncommittal about even a second-or third-ballot vote for Dewey. But Dewey was confident they would come...
...would swing down to Sapulpa, Okla. to see his in-laws; up to Kansas City for a night's rest; out to Salt Lake City for the Governors' Conference; back to Owosso, Mich, to see his mother and to show his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to Tom Jr. He explained: "We've always wanted the boys to know the West as soon as they were old enough to appreciate...
...speaker was Boston-born, Nova Scotia-raised Neil MacNeil, who left Canada for New York in 1917, eventually became an assistant managing editor of the New York Times. Last week he turned up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, to get an honorary law degree from his alma mater, St. Francis Xavier University. Said he: mass Canadian emigration to the U.S. should cease because in the atomic age "it may be necessary to abandon [the British] Isles and move the center of the British Empire to Canada. What remains of the British Empire [needs] reorganization and regeneration, and in both of these...
...Virginia's wartime governor, urbane Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. had often told the people what was wrong with their state university and had persuaded the General Assembly to spend $4,500,000 to fix it. Last week ex-Governor Darden took on the presidency of his languishing alma mater...