Word: mater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once: Branford, Calhoun, Davenport, Johnathan Edwards, Pierson, Saybrook, and Trumbull. Another is going up on the site of Berkeley Oval, and two more will be carved out of the present buildings of the Sheffield Scientific School. With the twenty millions which Edward Stephen Harkness lavished on his Alma Mater, Yale has been able to build five out of the present seven units new, the other two being made out of the Harkness Quadrangle...
...epic battle. It is my sincere hope that the revival of this traditional custom will restore the "Harvard Spirit" to the status of the glorious past and expose the much-vaunted "Harvard indifference" as a myth propounded by white-livered pseudo-cynics who consider disloyalty to their alma mater a mark of intellectual superiority...
...Hancock's estate, that worthy gentleman, who graduated in 1754, and was a former treasurer of the corporation, still owed $526 to the college. According to Reverend Carroll Perry of Ipswich, who wrote an essay on Hancock, the latter was also very unsatisfactory in his administration of his alma mater's finances, and the result was that Hancock's reputation as patriot and statesman has suffered with many people. However, the Reverend Perry attributed this unsatisfactory administration to the fact that Hancock, during his stewardship between 1773 and 1776, was preoccupied with affairs in Congress concerning the Revolution, and also...
...conducted that the receipts from the ticket gate go to pay football coaches and expenses, when games are broadcasted or not broadcasted, according to financial benefit, when former Harvard graduates and present undergraduates are deprived of seeing and enjoying afternoons of football of their own Alma Mater, and when you go to the games Saturday afternoon in a rough, hustling, jostling crowd, it calls to my mind more a motley crowd at a prize fight in the old days of Coney Island than an intercollegiate athletic event...
...Saltonstall family, who wrote to the Secretary for information in University Hall whether he was aware that the cough-drop shaped affair on the Dunster Gable was the mark of a spinster. To this the Secretary replied, with some wit, asking whether Mr. Saltonstall did not consider his Alma Mater a spinster...