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...JAMES BRYANT CONANT, 59, president of Harvard University, to be High Commissioner for Germany. Of Plymouth Pilgrim stock, a precocious science student at Roxbury Latin School and later at Harvard, the eminent educator became chairman of his alma mater's chemistry department before assuming its presidency in 1933. In World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served...
When the time came for college, Mr. Wilder decided that Yale, his own alma mater, was too worldly for his boys, so Amos and Thornton went to Oberlin.There Thornton fell under the spell of a great teacher. Professor Charles Wager was a kindly, quiet man who described himself as an "umbratile nature" (one who lives in the shadows of great men); but when he spoke of Victorian literature, or carried his students on the tide of his enthusiasm from Homer to Dante, the shadows vanished. From Wager, Thornton learned a lesson he was never to forget: "Every great work...
Abraham Lincoln later on became the Great Emancipator He could boast no Alma Mater...
Deutschland Uber Alles is a stirring tune used by many schools and universities as an alma mater. It was also the Nazi Party song, and one again enjoys great popularity in West Germany. In recalling the days of Germany's empire, it symbolizes a growing spirit of nationalism and a renascence of a German Nazism...
...have many Harvard friends, but we surely are ashamed of their alma mater. Here's hoping you all land in Korea soon. Mrs. Ina B. Cronk Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles...