Word: alma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimental homecoming celebration, Alonzo Stagg may have pondered the changes that have taken place in U. S. football since he was named on Walter Camp's first All-America in 1889, may have moaned over the low estate of the East's Big Three and his alma mater, Yale, in particular (beaten by Princeton last week...
...talent for cinematic story construction and his unparalleled diligence in employing it. Before a Hitch cock picture goes before the cameras, it has been written four times; by Hitchcock himself, by Hitchcock and a scenario writer, by Hitchcock and a dialogue writer and finally by Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville. Once work begins on the set, it progresses rapidly. Because Hitchcock considers it unnecessary to ex plain to them anything except the scene with which they are specifically concerned, his actors are often as baffled by what is going on as audiences will be later...
...single eye for the truth." Perhaps if Yale had lacked proper respect, she might have lifted her unyielding nose and branded the parent a hussy. The year 1858 underlined the differences in attitude, when six Harvard athletes picked the color which for them represented the tone of their alma mater. The occasion was the Boston City Regatta, at which Harvard deemed it necessary to have some distinctive mark. So the boat club rowing for Cambridge appeared on the Charles with China silk handkerchiefs of bright crimson tied about their heads. And, blessed with...
With a combination of nostalgia and sarcasm, he recalls the good old days when "we had 'fight talks' before every game and between the halves. We were pumped full of it, till we were ready to go out and die for dear old alma mater...
...Hubbard still has a soft spot for his old alma mammy. After discussing subsidization of players, he writes, "Some colleges are very sensitive on this point--Harvard for instance. They have a rule that no coach is allowed to speak at any preparatory school. They scrutinize every aplication for admission...