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...between Garden Street and Jim's Place of a winter evening. From among such various tugs of influence and tradition, he has emerged with a balance and soundness rare in the professional student, and an eclectic view. Though he has a great and natural affection for his first Alma Mater, interesting himself much in its affairs as an alumnus, he considers that Harvard and the Harvard undergraduate far more developed intellectually than their counterparts at New Haven. From Oxford he returned without the customary preciosities; the way English is taught there he deems even worse than the Harvard methods...
Nicholas Roberts, graduate of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in the class of 1901, has done much for his alma mater. In 1918, risen to be vice president of famed S. W. Straus & Co., the bondhouse that advertised "44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor," he rallied the spirits of Eli with a great party for the Yale football team, "win, lose or draw," in his barn at Montclair, N. J. Nick Roberts' barn party speedily became a famed annual event. To it was added an additional ceremony, the presentation of a bowl to distinguished alumni...
Joseph Rochemont Hamlen: A true friend of the University, who has brought the Alma Mater and the Alumni closer together by telling her their thoughts, and showing to her sons their mother's face...
Probably in the whole world the students of no other University can compare with those of the students of the University of Havana who. without exception, are willing to die for the ideals of their Alma Mater: and hundreds of them have already sacrificed their lives upon her altars, while America looks on like a painted cow through a painted gate...
...Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead of the politicians. Young Spaniard Jose Perdriga found Cuba rather puzzling. He had a job in a U. S.-owned mine...