Word: maters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Autherine be allowed to come back to her classes. Then, at a convocation of 7,500 students, President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael finally took a stand. He demanded that all students help maintain order to "remove the cloud which, in the minds of many, now hangs over our beloved alma mater." Though the university had fought by every legal means to keep segregation, he said, it could not fly in the face of a court decree ordering the trustees to take in a Negro. "No great university can afford to defy the laws of the land and thus set an example...
...back-despite the swashbuckling appearance of an eyepatch that covers an eyelid injury.* By nature and by dint of 37 years' unbroken service with New York's National City Bank, he is that increasingly valuable U.S. type, the comptroller-or, as an honorary degree from his alma mater (Brown University) put it last June: "One of those rare individuals to whom figures speak in clear tones...
...share of the gate receipts and settled for mere expenses. "But we have not the slightest doubt that the trip will bring forth good fruits," the Alumni Bulletin prophesied smugly. "Whatever else may be said of intercollegiate athletic contests, they turn the hearts of the graduates to their Alma Mater...
...baffling problem of what to do about the birthplace of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a dilapidated house in Portland, Me., was resolved when the poet's Alma Mater, Bowdoin College, decided to duplicate it on the campus' using the original furnishings, woodwork and mantels to achieve authenticity...
...live by the traditions of the service, built in the halls and on the campus of this greatest of all academies of its kind, and on many battlefields, from Bunker Hill to the Korean mountains." The President counseled the cadets to be "stout of faith in yourselves, your alma mater and your God." So saying, the President stepped to the front of the dais and began to pass out the diplomas, characteristically reserving his most scrutinizing appraisal and his warmest words of encouragement for Cadet John Paul Doyle Jr., "The Goat" (last ranking cadet) of the class...