Magna Mater

For the first time since I put my acceptance letter in the mail, I woke up this morning ashamed of my alma mater.
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Trotter graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and became the first black man named to Phi Beta Kappa.
The Fight to Ban ‘Birth of a Nation’|Jack Schwartz|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She graduated from her undergraduate program magna cum laude.
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He was disappointed to find out that his alma mater was not represented.
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And then there's Laurie (Amy Brenneman), the Garveys' mater familias.
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The Vulgate translates: “Et obviabit illi quasi mater honorificata, et quasi mulier a virginitate suscipiet illum.”
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
Among these are "Medusa," a bronze bust; and a "Mater Dolorosa," in terra-cotta.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Ea & hreticorum repulit iniquitatem, & Nostros in nauim non iam vt hospites, sed vt magna ex parte Dominos, potentsq imposuit.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
The first event, the wringing of Magna Charta from the king, Shakespeare passes over.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare|Leo Tolstoy
In the group of coins here illustrated it will be noticed that the Mater Deorum is conventionally throned upon a rock.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley