Word: alma
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That 's all very well; but a great many - too many give these same excuses - fellows won't subscribe, rowing men won't row, and the ball nine - well, something is the matter there; and things have now come to such a pass that the Alma Mater looks only to our foot-ball team for some autumnal laurels, - and we have n't beaten Yale...
...those who have just graduated. And those Freshmen who feel themselves able to make good oarsmen should take an interest in rowing, not for the sake of pleasure alone, but more than that, to keep up the boating prestige of the College which they have chosen for their Alma Mater. The present Freshman Class is by far the largest which has ever entered at Harvard, and from all appearances ought to contribute largely toward the University Crew, besides having a good crew...
...Alma Mater, if thou canst not provide us with women who can take proper care of our rooms, at least bestow upon us those that we can scold...
...enough instruction in writing. People who saw in the Catalogue what seemed a very small number of themes and forensics prescribed, would hastily conclude that Harvard offered no other opportunities for training in writing. To show that this conclusion is unfair may justify us as undergraduates in defending our Alma Mater against an accusation in which some of our College rulers have joined; and as visiting committees of the Overseers have just been formed, we hope that it will not seem impertinent in us to warn them that more work may be done than is at first evident...
...silly school-girls are huddled together, very much as their copper-colored predecessors used to be huddled in their wigwams, such a thing might be pardonable. But in a college as old, as honored, and as Eastern as Bowdoin, the sense of the dignity of the name which Alma Mater gives them should restrain the students who are inclined to indulge in such unseemly amusements...