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...they were exploring the colonnade, and one was promptly ejected as the other two escaped into parts unknown. According to the watchmen, they were "college fellows, all right," and one rumor indicated they were Brown men, out to paint the shining white goalposts the color of their Alma Mater...
...induction ceremonies tomorrow will find Harvard well represented. At Williams, Dr. Baxter returns to head his alma mater after seven years here as master of Adams House and as professor of History. His congratulatory address will be given by another great Harvard figure, President-Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell. Morover, at Cornell, President Conant's speech will help present Dr. Day to his new charges. And to Yale also go Harvard's best wishes as Dr. Seymour replaces retiring Dr. Angell...
...should not have written this because it has been a confidential matter between Mr. Coryell and myself (I fear he will not like my doing it) but already there has crept into the newspapers some word of what he has been doing for his alma mater and I think it is better to give you the facts correctly than have them possibly seep into your office somewhat distorted. N. C. ABBOTT Superintendent...
...good hard cash. . . . College trustees measure men by reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class at Mammoth if they fully understood the significance of the Commencement scene this month, as they watch their alma mater shoveling out honorary degrees to the face-cards of business and professional life...
Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband Sinclair Lewis got his first honorary degree last year from his alma mater Yale) this year became an LL.D. of Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.), an L.H.D. of University of Syracuse and of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.). Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay...