Word: alma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...already decided that no amount of knowledge could have improved his natural greatness. Still, among those who made it possible for Washington to have a congress on which to call for supplies; who furnished his army with generals, and his troops with money, there many who called Harvard their alma mater. Preceding the revolution, however, were those who developed the idea of a republic and who first proclaimed that "All men are created free and equal." The most notable of these was John Wise, "The first great American democrat." "He had every quality that gives distinction among...
...enough to endow a professorship of athletic studies. In my opinion such a professorship would be of more advantage to Harvard than a professorship of Hebrew or Semitic languages but I fear there is no one among the number of those graduates who wish to do something for their Alma Mater who goes with me. If the salary of such a trainer as is wanted could be raised by subscription for a couple of years, I think it very likely that the receipts from the new field would by that time be enough larger than the present receipts...
...carefully graded track and athletic ground on Holmes field, on a spot where only last spring a pathetic and unsuccessful swamp struggled for the mastery with a few scattered tennis courts and some willow trees, is calculated to fill the student returning to the bosom of the alma mater with emotions of agreeable surprise. If the freshmen of former year have had cause to wonder at the vastness and extent of the college, what must be the feelings of the freshmen of today ? But these very freshmen, moreover, themselves afford the greatest cause for wonder and congratulation. A class whose...
...eminence as a lawyer and his intellectual right to such a title. Indeed, we are proud to believe that the degrees of Williams have rarely been given except in recognition of merit, and that no venality or desire of currying favor with influential men can be attributed to our alma mater. Governor Butler has said that he regards with the "deepest sensibility" the honor shown him by this college, and it is but natural that he should show his feeling by accepting our invitation, and that we should be glad to receive him as an honored guest. We shall...
...unworthy of students who are to go into the world as exponents of the higher education of woman. The spirit of emulation - the desire to shine, at any cost, on commencement day are not the motives which will develop the students of Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students, we have infinitely better opportunities for judging the effect of this system than even your watchful care...