Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the speech of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, on Wednesday night, claiming that he would not support the Teachers Oath Bill, Representative Thomas Dorgan of Dorchester, sponsor of the bill, announced yesterday that unless public opinion is aroused sufficiently to force teachers to sign the oath, he would put teeth into the statute at the next session of the legislature...
Meanwhile, Professor Mather was censored by Harvey O. Burnett, of Harrisburg, an officer of the National Council of Red Men, John H. Walsh, state commander of the American Legion, Frederick Openshaw, state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and John J. Walsh, state commander of the Disabled American Veterans...
Although the appropriateness of Professor Mather's remarks were doubted, the student body seemed to be squarely behind his stand, and a petition was being passed last night among influential members of the Senior Class backing...
Indeed, ever since the righteous days of Cotton Mather, Harvard men have attended afternoon Hygience lectures with all the zest of a courtesan at a prayer meeting. It was probably too much to expect that even a new regime in the Hygiene Building could change over-night the traditional attitude of Harvard men towards the subject of health. In view of this feeling demonstrated again day before yesterday in New Lecture Hall, Dr. Bock's abolition of the voluntary lectures appears as a logical, though unfortunate, course of action...
...Richard's son, Increase Mather, was Harvard's sixth president. Increase sired Cotton Mather, prodigious Puritan scribe (450 books...