(n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) You're an alumnus of Nottingham's respected Television Workshop (past students include Samantha Morton).
(2) Though Chasez has pursued a relatively successful post-Sync career, as a solo artist and reality TV judge, the group has a yet more famous alumnus.
(3) LTPA was measured with the Lipid Research Clinics (LRC), Godin Leisure-Time Exercise, and the College Alumnus physical activity questionnaires.
(4) Just before the Murdoch tweet, Colin Moynihan – a former Tory minister, alumnus of Monmouth school and chair of the British Olympic Association – cited the fact that 50% of Britain's gold-medal winners at the Beijing Olympics were from private schools as "one of the worst statistics in British sport".
(5) Some years ago, in company with Divya Narendra, another Harvard alumnus who had worked with them on the original concept, they launched a lawsuit against the Facebook founder that resulted in two things: a $65m legal settlement in which the Winklevii got $20m in cash and $45m-worth of Facebook shares; and a major Hollywood movie – The Social Network – which tells the story in colourful terms.
(6) I hope that King’s will listen to its most beloved alumnus and a man revered around the world as a moral voice,” said Mark Horowitz, from the Fossil Free KCL campaign.
(7) What clearly will not influence Davies, a Manchester Grammar School boy, Oxford graduate and alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the prime minister's notion of a happiness index, once promoted by David Cameron as a rival barometer of success to growth which, it was said, would play a key role in the big future policy decisions.
(8) Market abuse An alumnus of Clifton College, a leading private school, and Oxford University, Sants is invariably described as smooth by anyone who has had dealings with him.
(9) As a black alumnus who walked past that statue for four years, I think Rhodes should be left exactly where he is “He was racist.
(10) "Well, if you were to pick up our March edition (on sale February 5), you could see the single healthiest foodstuff available at each and every Premiership ground in the country," writes kindly GU alumnus and now commisioning editor at Men's Health magazine, Dan Jones.
(11) He was elected to that post on his second attempt, in 1978, helped by another St John’s alumnus and Catholic politician, the Democratic governor, Hugh Carey .
(12) A lawyer and University of Michigan alumnus, Orr helped steer Chrysler out of bankruptcy, but this is a dilemma of an altogether greater magnitude.
(13) It may also say something about modern debate that the most teeth-grinding aspect of Osborne's move barely attracted comment – but the spectacle of an alumnus of St Paul's School worth an estimated £4m kicking the poor in order to preserve his political skin is irksome, to say the least.
(14) The Mackintosh Building is not just part of Glasgow's heritage - it is a national treasure May 23, 2014 3.53pm BST Another alumnus of the GSA is the broadcaster and journalist Muriel Gray, pictured here in tears near the scene of the fire.
(15) A Procter and Gamble alumnus, Bret is a past board member of Stanley Park Ecological Society and licensee for TEDxUBC.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump arrived just in time to do the monologue where a gag about how Trump actually thought plus-sized brunette cast member Aidy Bryant was Rosie O’Donnell was moderately amusing, as was Trump standing cheek to impressive jowl with two of his impersonators from the show, current cast member Taran Killam and alumnus Darrell Hammond, who did fake-Trump duties back in 2004 when he last hosted the show, at the height of his The Apprentice resurgence.
(17) Ralph Egwu, 27, is working with Edinburgh University alumnus Amy Burridge towards an A-level in government and politics in what is his first experience of formal education.
(18) Updated at 12.59pm BST 12.41pm BST Shiv Malik has joined the blog with this dispatch from a Hounslow school that boasts a fairly famous alumnus: I’m here at Feltham community college on the outskirts of west London where pupils and teachers have delivered a “truly outstanding” set of academic results.
(19) Relations were at a low during Boris Yeltsin's presidency, but there was a marked thaw after Aliev's fellow KGB alumnus, Vladimir Putin came to power.
(20) With regard to all-cause mortality, cigarette smoking and hypertension were most hazardous for the individual; smoking and lack of vigorous recreational play were most hazardous for the alumnus population as a whole.
Legacy
Definition:
(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(3) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(4) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
(5) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(6) The only explanation he can come up with is that Cameron is worried about his legacy.
(7) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(8) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(9) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
(10) Never camera-shy, he also leaves his legacy on celluloid too.
(11) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(12) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(13) "We are not leaving them an adequate legacy of homes.
(14) "EA's next CEO inherits a company beset by a broad range of legacy problems created not just by difficult retail market conditions but also by its own hand," says Nick Gibson an analyst at Games Investor Consulting Ltd. "It has been too eager to use major acquisitions – Jamdat, Playfish, Bioware, PopCap etc – to try to accelerate growth or gain early leadership positions in emerging markets, often overpaying by substantial amounts for companies that subsequently fail to deliver what EA expected they would."
(15) This is why in the end it won’t be the euro or the Ukrainian war that defines Merkel’s legacy.
(16) While building a structure that would enable us to realise our strategic vision was crucial, saying goodbye to close colleagues – some of whom had been with our legacy organisations for over a decade – was really hard.
(17) Commercialised … one of the new murals commissioned by the Legacy List, by Dutch collective Graphic Surgery.
(18) A key part of the legacy vision espoused by Lord Coe that helped to win the Games was the promise to use the 2012 Olympics to inspire more young people to play sport.
(19) The legacy of half a century of the voting rights struggle also hangs in the balance.
(20) He is currently writing Pan-Africanism: A History Facebook Twitter Pinterest Juliet Gardiner: ‘Britain’s greatly diminished power will be his legacy’ In 1848, the French politician Ledru Rollin is reputed to have said: “There go the people.