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...Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, yesterday rebutted charges made by Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) that Mather had used "catch phrases" stolen from the Communist "Daily Worker" in a recent St. Louis speech...
...Thomas Dorgan, clerk of Suffolk Superior Court, yesterday attacked Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, for defending the faculty's status with respect to Communism...
...March, the Y.P.'s tried to persuade Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Henry J. Cadbury, Hellis Professor of Divinity, to endorse the group, both refused...
...Free? The issue reported on civil liberties in the U.S., found them desperately menaced from all sides. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. found the U.S. turning "spies into heroes"; Matthew (The Robber Barons) Josephson discovered "book-burning" in schools and libraries. Scientists, charged Harvard pinko Professor (of geology) Kirtley F. Mather, have been hard hit because they "are peculiarly vulnerable to suspicion, recrimination and punishment." In education, entertainment, publishing, advertising and other fields, Nation contributors all turned in similar gloomy reports...
Thus in 1935, when Massachusetts passed a "Teachers Oath" requiring all instructors to support the constitution. Conant opposed the bill before the Legislature as an unnecessary reflection on the teaching profession, but did not like Professor Kirtley Mather, at first refuse to sign the oath once it had become law. When testifying before the Legislature Conant dodged the question to what he would do about Communists of his own faculty...