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Alumni of Cornell University are quite perturbed at the news that a moving picture producer is planning a film of Cornell life to be called "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" as a delicate tribute to that institution's well known song. Visioning their Alma Mater under the glare of bright lights and reflecting that the estimable old lady is not as young as she might be these alumni seem to doubt that she will appear to advantage on the stage...
...delightfully humorous article entitled "The Divine Right of the Alumni", appearing in the current Independent, Mr. Frederick L. Allen '12 pictures a loyal alumnus cherishing a fond affection for an alma mater he no longer understands and blundering incompetently about without exercising "a cubic millimeter of his brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni...
...first place, it coaxed into fancy baseball suits and out onto the diamonds more than 200 men who would never have tried for 'varsity or class nines. Secondly, it didn't confuse it summons to play with appeals to college or class loyalty or duty to Alma Mater even unto death. Each nine represented only itself and each player on it played only for the excitement and fun of baseball among friends. There were no professional coaches to curse into you the seriousness of your effort, nor vast galleries of rooting college mates and fair hero worshipers to wipe...
...graduate is one who is proud of his alma mater. An alumnus is one who is ashamed of her when she begins to lose football games...
Cutler is not the only Yale athlete who will face his father's alma mater when the Bulldog meets the Crimson in an athletic contest. The captain and star right fielder of the Yale baseball team, Eddy, is the son of H. B. Eddy '94 of Mamaroneck, N. Y. Curiously enough, the fathers of the two Yale athletes were classmates at Harvard...