Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article published in the Daily Princetonian, Dr. Mather A. Abbott discusses the relation of Preparatory Schools to the individualism creed of the colleges. Quite rightly, we believe, he absolves the schools and their emphasis upon spirit from blame, for the college reaction. It is a characteristic fostered by men of college age, independent of school training to disregard as superfluous all community interests which do not react to the immediate satisfaction of the individual. Dr. Abbott writes, "let us stick to the old order, if so-called individualism is going to bring to pass the current state of disinterestedness...
...language of Article V can be taken as modified by the principles of political science." To buttress his views Judge Clark showered his opinion with nonlegal quotations from Confucius, Cicero, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Lord Bryce, Justice Holmes, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Montesquieu, William Howard Taft, Congressman Luce, Claude Bowers, Abbott Lawrence Lowell et al. He quoted a feeble joke from the Georgia Supreme Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether or not it was good law was another matter. The Judge. Behind the decision was a tall, angular, sandy-haired...
...Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was awarded this year to the Lawrenceville School, of which Dr. Mather Abbott is headmaster...
Associates--Henry Lee Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University: Elmer Peter Kohler. Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry: George Howard Parker '87, professor of Zoology and director of the Zoological Laboratory: Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History: Lionel Simeon Marks, professor of Mechanical Engineering: Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy: Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of History: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, professor of History: Kenneth John Conant, '15, associate professor of Architecture: Robert Silliman Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English; and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...
...Resident Tutors--Abbott Payson Usher '04, associate professor of Economics: John Joseph Penny, instructor in Romance Languages; Daniel Sargent '12, instructor in History and Literature: Charles Holt Taylor, assistant professor of History: Edward Sears Castle '25, instructor in Physiology and tutor in the Division of Biology: Cyril Bathurst Judge, instructor in English: Robert Joseph Allen, instructor in English: Charles Louis Kuhn, instructor in Fine Arts: Bruce Campbell Hopper '24, lecturer on International Relations and tutor in Government; Talcott Parsons, instructor in Economics and tutor in Sociology and Social Ethics; Donald Holmes Wallace '24, instructor in Economics; Hugh Langdon Elsbree, instructor...