Word: maters
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...answer: it was not. The alma mater of Philosopher W.E.B. DuBois (class of 1888), among other distinguished alumni, is still alive--not kicking, not out of the red, but alive. The paint is peeling, the roofs leak and ruptured heating pipes spout plumes of steam in places that once would accommodate quiet reflection--but Fisk still functions...
...some alums, leaving the alma mater never has been tried. For a number of recent and not-so-recent alums, the University provides postgraduate employment for short- or long-term careers...
...business college at West Coast. "We're a small university, and one of our own was going into space. One of our guys was making good." When Jarvis climbed into the shuttle last week, he was carrying a flag from the school he considered his real alma mater, SUNY at Buffalo. He called the banner "a small token for the way they unlocked my future...
...Canada is open and ready for business." With those words, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney underscored his government's commitment to loosening trade restrictions last week in the third of TIME's Distinguished Speakers Program series. The forum was inaugurated by President Reagan in February 1984 at his alma mater, Eureka College in Eureka, Ill., and followed last December with an address by former Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Speaking at the University of Chicago, Mulroney used the occasion to drive home his view that protectionist trade policies lead only to isolation...
Similarly, the business students jetting to New Haven are siding with their college alma mater...