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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
Alma Mater is a bronze sculpture by Daniel Chester French which is located on the steps of the Low Memorial Library on the campus of Columbia University, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Man
Alma mater
…States display artistic representations of Alma Mater, depicted as a robed woman wearing a laurel wreath crown. The earliest of these is the bronze Alma Mater statue at Columbia University, designed in 1901 by Daniel Chester French. In the US the term alma mater is often used to describe a school song…
Alma Mater in 2014
The unveiling of Alma Mater in September 1903
U.S. president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower posing in front of Alma Mater in January 1953
Alma Mater covered with red paint on the first day of classes of the fall 2024 semester, in the context of the protest movement at the university during the Gaza war and genocide.