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...beat, holding it there while Navy gradually pulled away. It was no contest. Navy won No. 26 handily, beating Yale by half a length, Penn by two, with Harvard, Wisconsin and Cornell trailing. Coach Callow, 63, was elated but still claimed to be worrying about his alma mater, Washington, which last week whipped its top West Coast rival, California, by six lengths. Navy, now the Eastern sprint champions for the third straight year, faces two more tough tests: the Western championship (without Washington) at the end of this month, the Intercollegiate Regatta (with Washington) in June...
Coming from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison, the group trailed the two-boat race from an antiquated sightseeing boat, proudly singing the praises of their alma mater. For most, the battle was the first Harvard sporting event they had seen since college...
...planned on such ostentation. He only demanded that the bridge bear the following inscription: "May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier, connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, bean ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and Alma Mater, and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs...
...even as late as 1783, the Overseers reported that "it is not known yet what the late treasurer had received and paid." Hancock--by then governor of the Commonwealth--was enraged by this "indignity" and immediately switched his two sons from his alma mater to Yale...
...lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, who correctly named six out of seven melodies on a TV quiz show (his flub: the prelude to Act III of Lohengrin), happily sent his $800 prize to his old alma mater, New Orleans' Milne Municipal Home for Boys, where Satchmo was sent at 13 after he prankishly fired a pistol at the moon to celebrate New Year...