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Alma Mater Daniel Chester French , 1903, Columbia University , New York City
Alma mater (Latin: alma mater lit. pl. : almae matres ) is an allegorical Latin phrase used to proclaim a school that a person has attended or, more usually, from which one has graduated.[1] [2] [3] Alma mater is also a honorific title for various mother goddesses , especially Ceres or Cybele .[4] Mary, mother of Jesus .
The term entered academic use when the University of Bologna , Italy, founded in 1088 and world's oldest university in continuous operation , adopted the motto Alma Mater Studiorum ("nurturing mother of studies").[5]
The term is related to alumnus [6]
Etymology [ edit ]
John Legate's Alma Mater for Cambridge in 1600
Although alma (nourishing) was a common epithet for Ceres , Cybele , Venus , and other mother goddesses, it was not frequently used in conjunction with mater in classical Latin.[7] Oxford Latin Dictionary Lucretius in his De rerum natura
Denique caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi[8]
We are all sprung from that celestial seed,
After the fall of Rome , the term came into Christian liturgical usage in association with Mary, mother of Jesus . "Alma Redemptoris Mater " is a well-known eleventh century antiphon devoted to Mary.[7]
The earliest documented use of the term to refer to a university in an English-speaking country is in 1600, when the University of Cambridge printer, John Legate, began using an emblem for the university press .[9] [10] William Perkins , A Golden Chain , where the Latin phrase Alma Mater Cantabrigia ("nourishing mother Cambridge") is inscribed on a pedestal bearing a nude, lactating woman wearing a mural crown .[11] [12]
In English etymological reference works, often the first university-related usage is cited as 1710, when an academic mother figure is mentioned in a remembrance of Henry More by Richard Ward.[13] [14]
Special use [ edit ]
The University of Bologna in Italy, founded in 1088, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation .
Many historic European universities have adopted Alma Mater as part of the Latin translation of their official name. The Latin name of the University of Bologna , Alma Mater Studiorum oldest continuously operating university in the world . Other European universities, such as the Alma Mater Lipsiensis in Leipzig, Germany, or Alma Mater Jagiellonica , Poland, have used the expression similarly in conjunction with geographical or foundational characteristics. At least one, the Alma Mater Europaea in Salzburg , Austria, an international university founded by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2010, uses the term as its official name.
In the United States, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia , has been called the "Alma Mater of the Nation" because of its ties to the founding of the country.[15]
At Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario , and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, the main student government is known as the Alma Mater Society.
Monuments [ edit ]
Modern sculptures of Alma Mater are found in prominent locations on several American university campuses. In 1901, a bronze statue of Alma Mater by Daniel Chester French was installed of steps of Columbia University 's Low Library . A similar sculpture, cast in 1919 by Mario Korbel , sits on the main entrance steps at the University of Havana .[16]
Later statues include Lorado Taft's Alma Mater University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . Supporters of Washington University commissioned Cyrus Dallin for a sculpture for its affiliate Mary Institute in 1925.
An altarpiece mural in Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library , painted in 1932 by Eugene Savage , depicts the Alma Mater as a bearer of light and truth, standing in the midst of the personified arts and sciences.
Alma Mater , University of Havana
Alma Mater by Lorado Taft (1929), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alma Mater altarpiece mural by Eugene Savage at
Yale University (1932)
References [ edit ]
^ "alma" , Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
^ "Definition of 'Alma mater' . Merriam-Webster . Retrieved 3 April 2022 .
^ Ayto, John (2005). Word Origins ISBN 9781408101605 . Retrieved 18 May 2015 .
^ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd edition
^ "BOLOGNA, L'UNIVERSITÀ PIÙ ANTICA DEL MONDO" (in Italian). Retrieved 31 August 2023 .
^ Cresswell, Julia (2010). Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins ISBN 978-0199547937 . Retrieved 18 May 2015 .
^ a b Sollors, Werner (1986). Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture 78 ISBN 9780198020721
^ Titus Lucretius Carus . "Liber II" De rerum natura Wikisource .
^ Stokes, Henry Paine (1919). Cambridge stationers, printers, bookbinders, &c 12 . Retrieved 18 May 2015 .
^ Roberts, S. C. (1921). A History of the Cambridge University Press 1521–1921 . Retrieved 18 May 2015 .
^ Stubbings, Frank H. (1995). Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells: A Cambridge Glossary (2nd ed.). p. 39.
^ Perkins, William (1600). A Golden Chaine: Or, the Description of Theologie, containing the order and causes of salvation and damnation, according to God's word . Retrieved 18 May 2015 .
^ Harper, Douglas. "Alma mater" . Online Etymological Dictionary . Retrieved 18 May 2015 .
^ Ward, Richard (1710). The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr. Henry More, Late Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge . Retrieved 18 May 2015 .
^ "William & Mary – History & Traditions" . wm.edu.
^ Cremata Ferrán, Mario (20 February 2014). "Dos rostros, dos estatuas habaneras" . Opus Habana . Retrieved 21 January 2015 .
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