Word: kirtley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morning chapel services today, conducted by Professor Kirtley F. Mather, will take special note of the significance...
...Kirtley Mather Professor of Geology at Harvard and a speaker at Youth Conferences, will deliver the sermon at the Divine Services to be held this Sunday, October 10th, at 6.45 at Potter Hall, and special music will be provided by the famous 42-piece Coast Guard Band of the First Naval District...
...including a mysterious joker who floats in now and then to read PM and The New Republic), well, Art Hodes is one of the old Chicago gang that learned its jazz from the great New Orleans musicians who floted up the Mississippi (a good trick, as Professor Kirtley F. Mather could undoubtedly point out) after New Orleans went on a purity kick following the last...
Each chapter is written by a top-drawer expert (Kirtley Mather, Charles Franklin Brooks, Bart Jan Bok, Charles A. Federer Jr., Ralph Waldo Gerard and others), in chatty, informal style, simply illustrated, and at high-school level. No textbook, Science from Shipboard cuts ruthlessly across academic boundaries between the sciences, starts each topic with a direct human experience. Sample (by Harvard's Mather): "Like every ocean traveler you will be thrilled by each glimpse of land. . . . The most important idea that should be in your mind as you look at any shore is the fundamental fact that...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...