Word: kirtley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator, who is a graduate of the Yale Law School, made the above remarks in a discussion of the present state of academic freedom, during which the name of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology who has been under attack by the House Un-American Activities Committee, was mentioned. Mather is a sponsor of the College Kefauver for President Club...
...Peace Club has only been able to get one faculty sponsor, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology. Louis Sharpe '54, spokesman for the organization, said there was another faculty man who might come in, but he refused to divulge the name until the issue was certain...
...hammered together spools for barbed wire in a Chicago factory. I worked 70 hours a week and the first month I was paid $3.50 a week. From this, I developed a strong feeling for the underdog and the less well-to-do." Kirtley F. Mather has never forgotten these early years in Chicago. "Perhaps the thing that influenced me the most was my experience as a census taker in Cook Country. I worked in a district known as 'Irondale' where most of the people were recently-arrived foreigners. In one block there were over 400 people jammed on one side...
John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, have announced that they will be the faculty co-advisers of the Kefauver for President Club. Mather stated that their sponsorship of the club is in no way indicative of their political views on the presidential campaign...
...recent report, the House Un-American Activities Committee expressed considerable consternation over the scope of academic freedom. The Committee singled out Geology professor Kirtley F. Mather and M.I.T. Mathematics professor Dirk Jan Struik as examples of what can happen to American education when teachers go beyond bounds that the House Committee believes proper. According to the Committee, Mather is a man "who exerts influence over thousands of students at Harvard University" and who possibly may be leading his charges along the ill-fated path of the Rosenbergs and the Hisses...