Word: alma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College authorities who have deplored the over-emphasis on sport, which they largely attribute to the stimulus provided by competition and loyalty to alma mater, will now have a chance to see whether this same incentive applied to scholarship will act as an inspiration for better work in the classroom. We are a little skeptical but open-minded...
...contributing to the fame of his college or of winning renown for himself be forced to direct his energies to athletic achievement or to be content with the vague assurance that in devoting himself assiduously to his studies he is somehow adding to the intellectual prestige of his Alma Mater and storing up future treasures for himself. It is Mrs. Putnam's intention that the scholar who aids his college to victory over a rival by writing an excellent competitive examination paper may feel that he is contributing as directly to the college's glory as the halfback who scores...
...Alma Gluck Ernestine Schumann-Heink
...women. With these Mr. Packard puttered; he gave to the town of Warren $100,000 to build a library and, with his brother, 150 acres of land to build a park & playground. The largest of all his numerous donations was one of $1,000,000 to Lehigh University, alma mater, with which to construct and equip laboratories. Sixteen months ago illness drove James Packard to the ho pital. He stayed there sixteen months, in the same room. Then he died...
...Alma Petty Gatlin went to the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, in Reidsville, N. C., to confess her sins. She told him that she had killed her father and was sorry. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue accepted her confession and told the police. Mrs. Petty was tried for murdering her father; despite Thomas Pardue's testimony, which was admitted, the jury found Mrs. Petty not guilty. That was two weeks ago (TIME, March...