Word: alma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another school term is not far off. If it revealed by no other sign than the number of editorials appearing on the subjects of Commencement, A Life's Work, Farrewell, Alma Mater, and other of a like nature, it is well heralded to end the school year in every college paper which tell the reader that the end is near...
...past there has been no way of escape from the old adage, "once a professional always a professional." A study of the recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...
Married. Mrs. Marcia Gluck Clark, of Manhattan, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck Zimbalist; and Russell Wheeler Davenport, novelist (Gentleman King); in Manhattan...
...gracious tribute is paid in the new bronze tablet erected at Princeton to the honor of those who have served their alma mater by long hours of vigil on the side line benches. The words, "In appreciation of our Princeton football scrubs--past, present, and future" graven on the walls of the field house near the dressing room of the scrubs justly recognizes the men who day by day have given their time and taken the knocks to put the winning polish on the first eleven. Where the roaring plaudits of loyal backers comes to university athletics, gratitude...
...opponent got the sympathy of the press and therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni read the papers, this very important body is well disposed towards its Alma Mater, willing to kick in when the various appeals are made from Lehman Hall...