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...opening of the Senior year for the Class of 1936 and the beginning of the Tercentenary celebration ten months later, were eclipsed by a many-faceted dispute over the Teachers Oath Act, which required most instructors in Massachusetts institutions to swear they would support the national and state constitutions. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, struck out against the Massachusetts Legislature's stricture as "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." Mather claimed to speak for many Faculty men when he said he would not take the oath since it violated his constitutional rights. Seniors circulated a petition to support him while...
...Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus, still feels, 25 years later, that his effort in 1935 to rescind the Massachusetts Teachers Oath were well worth while. At that time, Mather withtood public opinion and almost defied the President of the University in his outspoken stand against the oath...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology; M. Stanley Livingston, director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus; and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, are among 57 individuals whose names are printed at the bottom of the petition...
George Wald, professor of Biology, will be the recipient of the 163rd annual Rumford Premium awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kirtley F. Mather, president of the Academy, announced last night...
...Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, emeritus, and Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, signed a statement saying "we are facing a danger unlike any danger that has ever existed...