Word: alma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fellow students of the University, it is for us to change this condition of things. It is for us to have opinions of which we are not ashamed, on a question which concerns the whole future of our alma mater. It is for us to be always ready to act up to our opinions and convictions. If we will do this there can be no doubt of the result, for the will of the majority, clearly expressed...
...Harvard are now divided into so many groups, each little group thinking its own thoughts, having its own assemblings, and giving its own dinners, that we would fain forget that larger bond, the class, that binds them all together. In just such manner does the bond of our alma mater become indistinct in our eyes. But when college days are past, the difference is at once felt! How valuable all reunions, of college or class, then become to us; they speak to us like voices from the past. Why can not some of this spirit be exhibited while...
...must be put down and exterminated by the public and social opinion of undergraduates as men and gentlemen, determined to maintain free of spot or blemish their own honor and that of their "alma mater...
...were so many valuable Books ancient manuscripts, the Labour of the Learned, and the work of ages, in a few hours turned to ashes. Our College is now poorer than any on the Continent - we are all real mourners on this occasion and I doubt not your attachment to alma mater will make you feel sorrowful upon this conflagration. . . . . . "The President's house was in great danger the wind was strong at the west the latter part of the time, and in short if Stoughton had gone all the houses in town to the Eastward of the College would have...
...alumni in general, as tending toward Harvard. Says the Princetonian in closing, "Now it looks at present very much as if the Yale alumni are going finally to carry the day. And if, moreover, it be not wholly unreasonable to suppose that the Harvard alumni will ultimately win their alma mater to their principles, can it be an altogether vain speculation for us to hope that in the race of American colleges, Yale will continue to head for Harvard after Harvard has headed for Princeton and, that, Princeton's educational principles acknowledged supreme, Princeton will naturally take its place...