Word: mather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Young Salvini, not Fred. Paulding, has been engaged to play the heroes to Miss Margaret Mather's heroines, under Manager Hill...
...York Times claims that Cotton Mather invented the marking system, and says that it "soon after came into use at Harvard College, where the Mather name was potent, and thence spread to other colleges as fast as they were founded. Whatever the vicious or bad effects of the marking system - and it is generally acknowledged that it fosters more and worse kinds of meanness than any other educational or civil law to which young men can be subjected - it must be preserved for its founder's sake...
Harry Eytinge indorses Hill's embryo actress, Margaret Mather, in this wild fashion: "This peerless phenomenon of the universe will bring a new heavenly revelation to men wherever the language is spoken, and make histrionism reign the empress of all created hearts throughout the limits of civilization." The truth is, that Miss Mather is simply a fair actress, with a handsome face and form. She has been very carefully trained, in fact over-trained, and while she does possess a little talent, she is devoid of the fire of genius, as Mary Anderson. Miss Mather is designed by her managers...
Prof. C. A. Young of Princeton, is giving a two weeks' course of lectures at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. Prof. R. H. Mather, of Amherst, will follow with a series on "Ancient Sculpture...