Word: alma
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...usual toasts were proposed. Mr. I. S. Whiting was called upon to respond for Alma Mater, and Mr. R. Sprague for the class; the latter toast, at Mr. Sprague's suggestion, was drunk with "Highland Honors." The toast to "The Ladies" was responded to by Mr. Godkin. Mr. C. R. Sanger responded for the committee. Mr. G. P. Upham was called upon to respond for the foot-ball eleven, and Mr. F. A. Barton for the base-ball nine. Mr. Brandegee, in his response for the crew, gave a brief description of the race last summer at Owasco Lake...
...worthy parents saw signs of genius from the day of his birth, and his education was soon begun. Old Mr. Brown, as excellent and wise as he was ambitious, placed the little George at one of the many and venerable Alma Maters with which the stony fields of New England have ever teemed, where he received a first-rate training. Yet he was as a youth backward, and only after repeated failures did he succeed in entering Harvard College at the rather late age of nine years and six months...
...gone before, to thank God for sparing our own lives, and to resolve to continue doing whatever it may still be in our power to do, for the honor of our class, for the good of our fellow-man, and for the prosperity and welfare of our beloved Alma Mater. Let us hope that we may never be counted among her unworthy or ungrateful children...
...great measure due to the leaders which '78 has furnished, but in everything that makes up a university reputation, and especially in its essential feature, good scholarship, the graduating class will bear comparison with its immediate predecessors, and these, it is well known, fully sustained the renown of their Alma Mater. Although the summa cum laude was not attained by any member of the class, it is well known that one at least came so near as only to miss it; and to another triple honors were awarded, the highest in two studies, and honors in a third, - a distinction...
...acquaintances and profitable connections in cities where otherwise they would be entire strangers. The bond between men of the same college is a lasting one, which grows stronger as years go by. Old graduates are interested in the younger men, and all alike watch over the welfare of their Alma Mater...