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...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...
...prohibitive lack of gasoline rather than a shortage of trained pilots or of modern airplanes has kept the Luftwaffe from full strength this year in the opinion of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, who discussed the problem in an interview on the Crimson Network last night...
Elight to ten times as many College students attended all or a part of the 1942 summer session as have ever done so in the past, according to a preliminary report recently made to President Conant and released yesterday by Kirtley F. Mather, director of the Summer School and professor of Geology...