Word: mather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last night at the Union noise worked for the good of Harvard and the football team. And, although neither the football team nor Harvard may have been other than bored, the efficient cause of the noise was tinctured with good will. Tonight "science" under the leadership of Professor Mather rallies around the flag of demonstrate truth while "religion" rallies around the standard of revealed truth at the Phillips Brooks House. And here if the efficient cause of the noise be goodwill, this particular burst of oratory will be unique in the history of "Scope's Trial" debates in this country...
...struggle between irreconcilables whose views are as biased as their voices are harsh with the sibilance of sustained animosity. To bait an eledrly gentleman whose convictions are unpopular for the edification of minds who see in "modernism" ultimate salvation is, at best, a sorry game. And what little Dr. Mather can say to clarify this nebulous issue will possess the inadequacy of forced condensation. The whole affair, in the light of serious and sober thought, cannot appear other than ridiculous...
...John Roach Striation and Professor K. F. Mather will be the principal speakers in the second Symposium of the year at the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow night...
Professor Mather of the University Department of Physiography will maintain that the two branches of thought are easily reconcilable Professor Mather has acquired recognition as a modernist bu his contention that the theory of evolution is not contrary to the Book of Genesis but explains it more fully...
Boston liked This Woman Business. But then, Boston always has liked this woman business, so that its reception of the play imported from London for the Wilbur's stage is no great overturn of form. Ever since the days when Cotton Mather sent two wives to heaven with his Frendian nagging, Boston, whether she'd admit it or not, has been a matriarchy, up to the very beginning of the present Irish era; and now maybe it's Mother Machree who rules the roost...