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...likewise the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, is comparable to any. The Universities of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia have buildings and grounds which could scarcely be finer in cultural and historic atmosphere. The College of Charleston (S. C.) is without a peer among city colleges. My own alma mater, the University of the South (the Oxford of America) at Sewanee, Tenn., with its 10,000-acre campus, the largest in the U. S.. yet one of the smallest colleges (30 men), with its Magdalen College Tower and other Gothic buildings, can be ranked with Yale's Harkness...
Writing in the current Harpers magazine, Olaf Axelgaard (a convenient pseudonym) examines the "scholastic tourist trade" and finds it sadly wanting. He tells amusing stories of incompetent loafers who wander around the continent, and return to the welcoming arms of an alma mater hypnotized by the "music of the Sorbonne." There has been a and decadence; fifty years ago, the writer claims, the American group studying in Europe were a driving force in education. Now the "hrummagen scholarship" has caused the "goddess Alma Mater to resemble the bitch goddess of William James." According to this authority, the average student goes...
More college graduates among organized nudists claim Harvard university as their alma mater than any other institution, according to the Dakota Student. --Oklahoma Daily...
Before going to Swarthmore, Raymond Walters had been registrar and English instructor at Lehigh University, his Alma Mater (1907). An American Legionary, onetime associate editor of School and Society, he is a member of the board of managers of the famed Bethlehem (Pa.) Bach Choir, about which he wrote a book...
...apart from these general criticisms, there is the mater of organization, upon which you have expended more praise than upon almost any other aspect of Harvard University existence. Why are weekly quizzes given to the non-honor men for almost the whole length of the year? And, worse, why must those men who have shown themselves capable of honor work in the self-vaunted most difficult undergraduate course be afflicted with regular bi-weekly hour exams? The excess study required by the average man in the course over that generally given with a full course is proverbial; the conference...