Word: alma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alleged Bolshevists, who demanded Dr. Hodgdon's resignation, say their dear desire is to restore their alma mater to its pristine purity, which was menaced by Dr. Hodgdon's striving to make the "poor man's Harvard" more like the real Harvard by paying money to athletes does that sinful device really persist in Cambridge? and by other "new ideas that do not jibe with the traditions of the university." The "loyal" students who supported the President organized parades and stripped for action in the best Lusk manner, but were prayerfully dissuaded from war on the local Soviet...
...educated by what we know, and not by what we have studied; and while the university is the ideal medium through which an education may be secured, it is not the only one, and we can continue our training to good advantage after we have left our alma mater. Michigan Daily...
...There are snobs at Harvard and snobs at Yale, Oberlin, and Leland Stanford." (And in Mr. Train's hurried trip across the continent we might have suggested another station or two.) As a general thing he said he regarded the alleged trait of his fair alma mater as simply "Harvard indifference," and we rush to be as universal as he and say that it is also Yale, Oberlin, and Leland Stanford indifference, and to further argue that a lot of so-called snobbishness is nothing more than bashfulness...
...program for the Pops concert at 8 o'clock tonight, Simmons College night is as follows: Marche Militaire, Schubert Overture, "Le Forza del Destino", Verdi Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", Strauss Simmons College Songs, Simmons Marching Song, Emma Burchenal Our Alma Mater, Marion Fitch '19 Stand by Simmons, Marion Fitch '19 (Words by Louise Andrews Kent) Fantasia, "Carmen", Bizet "Hindu Song" from the Opera, "Sadko", Rimsky-Korsakoff Ave Maria, Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings, Bach-Gounod Rhapsody, "Espana", Chabrier College Hymn (Words by Sarah Louise Arnold) Selection, "Lady Billy", Levey Song of the Volga Boatman, Arr. by Agide...
...other stories among those that deserve the greatest commendation are C. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Camel's Back", Alice Duer Miller's "Slow Poison", L. H. Robbins "Professor Todd's used Car", and "Alma Mater" by O. F. Lewis. The last, as might be supposed from the title, is a college story, a narrative abreast of the progress in American university matters...