Word: maters
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...attended courses at M.I.T., studying electricity and engineering, and worked on the side checking automatic scales for pocket money. Increasingly, however, the social sciences came to interest the young Costa Rican. "Herbert Spencer," he reminisces fondly, "taught me English and the Boston Public Library is my real alma mater...
After receiving this degree, she taught at Wheelock College for two years. But when offered the directorship of Radcliffe's Women's Archives and of the Radcliffe seminar program for adult women in 1959, Mrs. Solomon was glad to return to her alma mater. The Archives include one of the country's most complete collections of the diaries and letters of noted women; Mrs. Solomon enjoys working with the varied scholars who use these documents. "You never know who's going to come in to do research," she says, "and I love the quest for new manuscripts." Mrs. Solomon will...
Those in Latin America who argue the need for widespread social changes used to regard the Roman Catholic Church as an enemy or a neutral -certainly not as an ally. But in several Latin American countries the late Pope John's influence - and in particular his 1961 encyclical Mater et Magistra, calling for social justice - set off a new spirit of reform and social action in the church...
Belying their alma mater's reputation of physical infirmity, Harvard University varsity teams last year recorded the highest winning percentage in the Ivy League for the sixth straight year...
Died. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, 81, father of Technicolor, a lanky, secretive M.I.T. graduate who named his process for his alma mater, hit pay dirt with Becky Sharp in 1935, and ever after mined millions from his Technicolor, Inc., selling only his "services" (never cameras, which were guarded like crown jewels) until a 1950 consent decree forced him to be more accommodating; of a heart attack; in Bel Air, Calif...