Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What especially alarms alma mater in her life-or-death battle for operating funds is that day by day they seem harder to find. In the first place, philanthropy is playing a reduced role today in college income; reasons include high taxes, talk of red infiltration in universities, and the general desire of would-be donors to hold on to their cash in anticipation of economic downswing. Secondly, interest on investment has fallen over a long period and is likely to stay down as long as the government's low interest policy continues. The third major source of income-tuition...
...single-wing system. He served as Sutherland's backfield coach in 1937 and 1938 and later in the same capacity at the University of Florida. From 1941 to 1947 he worked with T and Split-T formations at Temple University, but has coached a single-wing backfield at his alma mater for the past two seasons...
Along with news of the addition to the University's real estate came word of numerous other gifts which the physician had given anonymously during his lifetime. His 72 donations to his alma mater included the Briggs Memorial baseball cage and a large part of the cost of the Indoor Athletic Building...
Gordon Gray went off to World War II as a private. He came out a captain, and was later appointed Assistant Secretary of the Army. Last spring Gordon Gray decided to resign, move his wife and four boys back to North Carolina and accept the deanship of his alma mater's up & coming business college. President Truman scotched his plans by persuading him to stay on as Secretary of the Army...
Married. Samuel Eliot Morison, 62, historian, proper Bostonian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1942), official historian of the Navy (History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II) and of his alma mater (Tercentennial History of Harvard, 1930-36); and tennis-playing, concert-singing Priscilla Barton, 44, Baltimore socialite; both for the second time; in Baltimore...