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This is the question which has been argued time and again on the lecture platform, in the pulpit, and in the courtroom; it is the question which at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Professor Kirtley Mather and Dr. John Reach Straton will argue at the Phillips Brooks House...
Professor Kirtley Mather will go to California and Professors Charles Palache, C. D. Daly, and E. S. Larsen Jr. will go to Spain this spring on geological expeditions. Professor Mather leaves at the end of this month for ElkHills oilfields, where he will remain for four weeks in an effort to get information for the government's use in a law suit which it has been carrying on for some time. It is in connection with the Teapot Dome oil scandal of two summers ago. The Elk Hills fields were leased to Doheney at the same time as Sinclair secured...
...Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory has been feeling the geologic pulse of New England carefully ever since the earthquake series which she began to experience in September, 1924. He warned her in advance of the shocks felt last month in the Merrimac Valley (TIME, Oct. 19), and last week he told her that worse upheavals are coming, upheavals as violent as those that visited New England in 1775 and about the same calibre as the Santa Barbara shocks last summer. He predicted that the property damage to New England would be great because of the number...
...England's earthquake series, which she has been experiencing in mild instalments since September, 1924, was continued last week. Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory had predicted that the Merrimac Valley would be the region next disturbed, and sure enough, crockery fell, a crumbling chimney crashed, canned goods toppled from shelves in the general store at Ossipee, N. H., and court was suspended for five minutes. In neighboring towns folk ran to the streets to hear their old hills rumble. Then, the granite of New England being no more emotional than the people who dwell upon...
Prominent among the scientists who offered their services in defence of Dr. Scopes was Professor Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Associate Professor of Physiography in the University. In the outline of evolution which the scientists prepared and submitted, Professor Mather, attempted to prove that none of the facts of evolution should be disturbing to the adherent of Christianity. Professor Mather is a student of the Bible and has lectured on it at Boston University...