alumnus 復習

　また、不正がありました。

Showa University has announced that since 2013 it has manipulated the scores of applicants who took the second stage of the entrance exam for its medical school.

The Tokyo university said during a press conference on Monday that it padded the scores of those who took the examination while still enrolled in high school or within a year of graduating.

It also said that since the same year, it has preferentially accepted a total of 19 applicants who were the children of alumni on the waiting list for places. No indication of this practice was stipulated in the university’s exam guidelines.
以下省略
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004898254

　今回取り上げるのはalumnus /əlˈʌmnəs/ です。『ジーニアス英和辞典』（第四版、大修館書店）には「（男子の）卒業生、同級生、以前の住人、旧社員、元選手」とありました。また、LDOCEにはa former student of a school, college etcと定義されています。

　al-,ol-,alt-,ultという接頭辞はラテン語で「育つ」という意味です。

　今回の記事では複数形のalumniが使われています。辞書によると男子卒業生を指すとありましたが、実際はその認識は薄く、女子の場合でも使われるようです。(rain)
alum - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から