Alma mater
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Alma mater is an allegorical Latin phrase meaning 'nourishing mother'. It personifies a school that a person has attended or graduated from. The term is related to alumnus, meaning 'nursling', which d
The Alma Mater statue at Columbia University in New York City, cast by Daniel Chester French in 1903
John Legate's Alma Mater for the University of Cambridge, written in 1600, the first known use of the term
The University of Bologna, the world's oldest university in continuous operation, known in Latin as Alma Mater Studiorum (nourishing mother of studies).
Alma Mater at the University of Havana
Daniel Chester French
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Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man, an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of
French in 1902
French's summer home, studio Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
French in his studio with the model for Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell, c. 1889
The Minute Man (1874) in Concord, Massachusetts