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Grey, patrician Joseph Clark Grew, erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to Japan, paid tribute last week to "one of the foremost military and naval academies in the United States." Mr. Grew referred to his own alma mater-Harvard University. He was speaking at Harvard's 292nd commencement, which was typical of 1943 commencements throughout the U.S. It was signalized chiefly by the tramp of 8,000 militarized student feet. Harvard gave only 1,115 academic degrees (against its prewar 2,500), but conferred 4,000 training certificates on Army & Navy officers, officer candidates, and Radcliffe WAVES. Only one honorary academic hood...
...some 50,000 American Indians from Station WNAD at the University of Oklahoma. Roughly translated, it means: "Hello, my friends, this is Kesh-ke-kosh, me, myself, I am here, speaking." Kesh-ke-kosh is Don Whistler, a rugged Sac and Fox Indian, who persuaded his alma mater to let him go on the air two years ago. His half-hour program (Indians for Indians) has the only regular Indian language broadcast in the U.S. It is unrehearsed and almost scriptless. Because of the diversity of speech among Indian tribes, much of the broadcast has to be delivered in English...
...classes and units arrive, their membership is analyzed according to the college listed as Alma Mater on special cards. Periodic checking makes it possible to issue lists of men who have attended the same college, no matter where they may be billeted here...
...reading Stanley M. Cleveland's letter (TIME, March 29) I was struck by his description of "people who . . . look upon America with the same . . . sentiment with which a college sophomore looks on his alma mater." I recalled a statement made by the late John Galsworthy over 20 years ago when he said that Americans' attitude toward their country "seems to be that of a lover to his lady or a child to its mother...
Bears who celebrated last week on Berkeley's green, oak-groved hills above San Francisco Bay, found an alma mater with hundreds in uniform. In the sweeping, serene Hearst Greek Theater, they heard Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish draw a Paul Bunyanesque portrait of The American...