Word: alma
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Debaters from Marquette University, the Senator's alma mater, defended the negative of the topic, "Resolved, That investigation of subversives be restricted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation," and won a two to one verdict over the College team. Judges for the event, which was hold in Milwaukee, were two high school debate coaches and a columnist from the strongly pro-McCarthy Milwaukee Sentinel...
...Mason, Mich., after Sheriff Willard Barnes complained in the Lansing State Journal that the County Jail was short of blankets and mattresses, he received two new blankets with an unsigned note: "As a minor [alumnus], may I take this opportunity to make a small contribution to my Alma Mater during the current emergency...
...bolt had been in the form of Yale graduate and benefactor Edward S. Harkness '97, who had come to Lowell after being turned down by his alma mater. Yale had been unprepared for his offer to finance subdivision, but Lowell was already strongly convinced overgrown Harvard had to be split up. Ten seconds after Harkness had offered his financial assistance, Harvard had for all practical purposes become the guinea pig for large American colleges...
...grads of Georgetown University, Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall ('20) and Democratic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell ('28), agreed to meet this week at their alma mater and debate a subject dear to both their hearts: Is it wiser to be a Democrat or a Republican...
...determined to give meaning to the word which appears on the shield of this University--Veritas, and if necessary, they will observe even though the College Dean has warned that a club advocating investigation will not be sanctioned. They will do it for the sake of their country and alma mater...