Word: alma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...things continue to so at the pace they are going at present, Oxonians who went down in 1880 will be unable to recognize the face of their Alma Mater in 1890. She is not only changing her normal complexion, but also her physical features most rapidly. Four new buildings of importance have sprung up within the last two years. The most important, the new school, is yet in an unfinished state, Magdalen and Trinity are greatly extending themselves, and a new college is nearly completed which will work great results in bringing old-fashioned Oxford up to date...
...already beginning to approach the old ante bellum figures. We therefore hope soon to see a similar increase at Harvard. One way in which this event can be hastened is by each Southerner now at Harvard preaching the Harvard propaganda in the place where he lives. Love for their Alma Mater should prompt men to do this, for every accession to the number of students brings a corresponding increase to the prosperity of the university...
...presented. While it is certain that no institution of learning on the continent possesses a library equal to that of Harvard, it is probable that no college library presents so few inducements to its patronage by the students, or is comparatively so little used as the library of our Alma Mater. While we hear ever louder and yet more loud the alarming cry that the students do not read are not using the library, do not enter the Hall even, the great underlying evil, which is the aggressive centre of the disastrous situation remains untouched. We cannot hope for success...
...urged by the opponents of compulsory chapel, that the only reason for attendance is the keeping up of an old custom. Well, it seems to me, if that were the only reason, it ought to have considerable weight. Don't we speak of the college as our "Alma Mater?" and are not we, the students, in a certain sense all members of one great family? And is it not fitting that the family should all be together once every day? I can't see why it should be considered a hardship to attend chapel, except by those men who indulge...
...time for home gatherings. The granting of only one day off at Thanksgiving to us Harvard students tends to defeat this custom, which is as old and settled almost as the country itself of "home-gatherings" as regards the majority of the students. Of course we all love our Alma Mater, but we can't help wishing for the one or two more "grains of corn...