Words similar to alumnus

Example sentences for: alumnus

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Dear Alumnus:
This organizer is an alumnus of the AFL-CIO's much-praised Organizing Institute, which trains both rank-and-file workers and zealous college students in the latest tactics.
Being the son of a Harvard alumnus and then getting into Harvard himself does not seem to have made a shrinking violet out of him.
After all, Odets gave HUAC the same names, as did Lewis Leverett, another Group Theater alumnus whom Kazan named.
Chapter 6 discusses, under A Few More Words, a number of suffixes ( -trix, -ess , etc.) and words ( hero/ heroine, alumnus/alumna/alumni/alumnae , etc.) that apparently offend the authors: they campaign for the elimination of la différence . My own attitude is that I find such terms not in the least denigrating: Why should a woman object to being called a heroine, a divorcée, or an actress any more than being called a female or a woman?