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A collegian so calls the university of which he is a member. The words are Latin for “fostering mother.”
“Expulsion from his Alma Mater.”—The Collegian and the Porter.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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