Word: alma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal thanks for your sympathetic attitude to our efforts to rebuild Louvain University Library. It is a source of deep gratification to me that Harvard University, the fountain of all spiritual life in this great country, is taking active sympathy in the worthy cause of helping Belgium's oldest alma mater to rise Phoenix-like from its ashes...
...make good material for Eugene O'Neill at his bitterest, tells of the moral disintegration of Anthony Patch, and his wife Gloria. Anthony is our old friend Amory Blaine, now made for the sake of variety a Harvard man. Whether or not it is because of a change of Alma Mater, he is a little more consistently worthless than his Princeton prototype but otherwise he is the same. A good part of the novel is devoted to analyzing his character but for all this it seems to us that if Mr. Fitzgerald had described him in the first place...
...tuition fee required now, yet from this it should not be argued that they go scot free. Contributions to the endowment fund and class treasuries even up the score; and that the men and parents of the men, in college and out of college, contribute liberally to their Alma Mater, the list of subscribers to the Harvard Endowment Fund will show...
...waxed wroth over books and magazine articles which represent Princeton as a cross between a first-rate country club and a sanitarium where one may rest up after arduous week-ends. The writer of the editorial admits that there may be a few individuals who think of their alma mater in these terms; but the difficulty comes from judging the mass by the few--"unrepresentative observation" as logicians call it. Harvard has had a similar experience along a different line. A certain class of outsiders read in the papers of millionaires' sons here in the University. That settles it! Harvard...
...Yale have changed places with respect to culture and athletic prowess;--"Yale men discussing literature, Harvard winning football games," "Doesn't that prove that something is wrong with the college?", asks the horrified Yale graduate when he hears from his younger brother, Chester Merriwell, what has happened to his alma mater...