Word: maters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point football gave way to eloquence. Bill Cunningham, a high-salaried local scrivener, arose, said he'd rather be in Washington watching the Red Sox, and opened his eulogy of Dartmouth with a reference to "my beloved alma mater." Things aren't so hot up there, he said, because what with one thing and another they've lost the left side of the defensive line from end to center. But: "We aren't striking the flag," "we older fellows must realize the game has changed;" and "football teaches . . . all those beautiful things without which...
Munro's task is nothing short of tremendous. Last fall, in his first season here, he fashioned a team which lost only to Springfield (his alma mater and defending national champion) and Navy, Harvard's only Ivy League loss. The 1948 team finished second to Cornell in the Ivy League and runner-up to Connecticut in the New England circuit...
...unpublished pages of the Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's diary, the complete manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell's correspondence with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...This is the Class that was nurtured on joint instruction, brought up in classrooms where the woman in the seat on the left was in here proper and rightful place. The Class of '49 was among those officially admitted to the Harvard Classroom, and it developed for its Alma Mater a new place in the sun, a welcome belongingness. Radcliffe, so long considered a peripheral part of the Cambridge scene, finally became essential to the Square community...
...well-loved figure of Christ, securely fixed in the immemorial Stabat Mater tradition of the West, will never take that road; but is likely to assume increasing prominence, while the outrageous child continues to rampage in the East with stolen hammer & sickle...