Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Firing the first gun in the Summer School's drive to enroll intelligent men and women in the session commencing July 1, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and director of the Summer School, issued an invitation yesterday to "mature men and women who are anxious to keep abreast of the times...
Professor Kirtley F. Mather, director of the summer school, explained that the usual wide array of courses in education for teachers and the customary studies for undergraduates will be given, but the stress will be on graduate study and the adults "keeping up with the times...
...adult education help save America," will be the subject of an experimental debate in the form of a "dialogue discussion" to be engaged in by Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Harry A. Overstreet, professor of philosophy at the College of the City of New York...
Yesterday the arrival of the April Hour Examination brought the experiment its first trial. Professor Mather does not feel however, that the five weeks since Midyears is a sufficiently long period for noticeable results. The eventual success or failure of this new plan will not be determined until this picked group has taken the Final Exam and the honor men's work has been compared with that done by the regular students...
...this extension of opportunity for individual work and initiative, in line with the policies of the Conant administration, Professor Mather hopes to answer these objections in the case of Geology 1. At present the special students are divided into two groups of 20 each, under the general guidance of Charles H. Burgess '31, instructor in Geology, and Newton E. Chute, tutor in Geology...