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To the Hindu she was the Lady Isani. She was the Ceres of Roman mythology, the Cybele of Phrygia and Lydia, and the Disa of the North. She was worshipped by the Muscovite, and representations of her are found upon the sacred drums of the Laplanders. She swayed the ancient world, from its southeast corner in India to Scandinavia in the northwest; and everywhere she is the "Mater Dolorosa."
Such persons did not promise to be the disciples of a low Utilitarianism; and consequently, as their collegiate reform synchronized with that reform of the Academical body, in which they bore a principal part, it was not unnatural that, when the storm broke upon the University from the North, their Alma Mater, whom they loved, should have found her first defenders within the walls of that small College, which had first put itself into a condition to be her champion.
The farmer's wife next door." An exclamation from the other caused him to look up. Reggie Byng was staring at him, wide-eyed. "Great Scott! Mrs. Platt! Then you're the Chappie?" George found himself unequal to the intellectual pressure of the conversation. "The Chappie?" "The Chappie there's all the row about. The mater was telling me only this morning that you lived here."
He was extremely grieved at the condition of his beloved alma mater, with a Roman Catholic Master reigning at University College, a doctor from the Sorbonne and Fellows to match, inflicted by military force on Magdalen, whose lawful children had been ejected with a violence beyond anything that the colleges had suffered even in the time of the Rebellion.
Yet she had always believed that after his own savage fashion he had loved Lucas. Suddenly he rose. "If you have quite done with me, alma mater, I'll go." She looked up at him apprehensively. "What are you going to do?" He smiled abruptly. "I am going to get a drink." "And what then?" she asked feverishly. "Nap, oh, Nap, she is staying in the house. Won't you go without seeing her?"
The same post that carried her letter east was to take one from Courtney Thane to his mother. DEAREST MATER: I am going to ask Alix Crown to marry me. I have hesitated to do so for obvious reasons, perfectly clear to you. Now, I have decided. She understands my financial situation. She knows that I am almost entirely dependent on you for support at present.
Throughout our school years, we were always keenly conscious of the growing development of Rockford Seminary into a college. The opportunity for our Alma Mater to take her place in the new movement of full college education for women filled us with enthusiasm, and it became a driving ambition with the undergraduates to share in this new and glorious undertaking.
He sang hoarsely as follows: "Tommy and Dorcas, now adieu; I drops a briny tear on, Mayor, my memories of you; Stevey that brought the beer on; Farewell across the waters blue, Oh, Jiron. "Farewell the nights of ba'my smell, Farewell the alligator, Special them little ones that dwell In the muck hole with their mater. Farewell, Portate, oh, farewell, Equator."
Glad to make your acquaintance. My name's Farnie. I'm your uncle, you know. 'My what? gurgled the Bishop. 'Your uncle. U-n, un; c-l-e kul. Uncle. Fact, I assure you. 'But, dash it, said Gethryn, when he had finished gasping, 'that must be rot! 'Not a bit, said the self-possessed youth. 'Your mater was my elder sister. You'll find it works out all right. Look here.
But I can learn from the East how to bring the West into its own kingdom. I can make the dead languages serve me the better to speak the living words here. And if I can do that, I may earn a Master's Degree from my Alma Mater without the writing of a learned thesis to clinch it.
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