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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
University of Bologna
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The University of Bologna is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. It is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, and the first degree-awarding institution of higher learn
Alma mater
…the nursing mother became an allegory for universities. Used by many schools in Europe and the United States, it has special association with the University of Bologna, whose motto Alma Mater Studiorum ("nurturing mother of studies") emphasizes its role in originating the modern university. Several university campuses…
The entry of students in the Natio Germanica Bononiae, the nation of German students at Bologna; miniature of 1497.
University Library in the Palazzo Poggi
Interior view of the Porticum and Loggia of the Royal Spanish College