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University of Florida Emerson Alumni Hall. An alumni association or alumnae association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students ().In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organization.
A second line of development took place at Yale College, with the creation of Chi Delta Theta (1821) and Skull and Bones (1832): antecedents of what would become known as class societies. Skull & Bones aroused competition on campus, bringing forth Scroll and Key (1841), and later Wolf's Head (1883), among students in the senior class.
In 1888, the Ex-Cadets Association was reorganized to form the Alumni Association. [5] In the mid-1890s, E.P. Cushing founded Alpha Phi to "work for the upbuilding of the college." [ 6 ] Cushing chose to contact all 3,000 former students of the college, rather than just the 300 students who had received degrees. [ 6 ]
Alumni (sg.: alumnus (MASC) or alumna (FEM)) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums ( sg. : alum ) or alumns ( sg. : alumn ) as gender-neutral alternatives.
The problem seems to be that you want to use the "alumni" category only for "graduate alumni". "Alumni" means both graduate alumni and non-graduate alumni. If you want to make a distinction, you need two non-overlapping categories. "Alumni" overlaps both. - Nunh-huh 01:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Some English words of Latin origin do not commonly take the Latin plural, but rather the regular English plurals in -(e)s: campus, bonus, and anus; while others regularly use the Latin forms: radius (radii) and alumnus (alumni). Still others may use either: corpus (corpora or corpuses), formula (formulae in technical contexts, formulas ...
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