Word: mather
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Another scholarship plan for British lads was announced by Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School (N. J.). A onetime crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, Dr. Abbott was born in Halifax, educated at Oxford. Three students will be selected annually from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Shrewsbury, the schools which Dr. Abbott believes mold British opinion-makers. They will spend holidays with their U. S. schoolmates, will take a special course of Dr. Abbott's devising: U. S. History, physics and chemistry, higher mathematics and modern languages (which some pedagogs think are taught better in U. S. secondary...
Ezekiel Cheever was the Boston Public Latin School's first master. A marble slab records that "Cotton Mather, a grateful pupil, ascribed to him all New England's learning." The third master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War's begun and school is done." Five signers of the Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late...
...elected were G. M. Fair '16, associate professor of Sanitary Engineering, and Albert Haertlein '16, associate professor of Civil Engineering. The seniors who were elected are M. A. Benson, of Mattapan; E. A. Chandler, of Arlington; M. A. Walsh, of Oradell, New Jersey. The chief speaker was K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology...
...will deal with new theories of astronomical and physical investigation, with particular attention to relativity. Preceding the meeting of Sigma Xi, which is the scientific counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa, the America Association for the Advancement of Science will meet on December 27, at Atlantic City. K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary of this group. The session will be featured by a symposium on the late Pleistocene and recent changes of level along the North Atlantic Coast...
Recently elected officers of the Harvard chapter of Sigma Xi, installed last Tuesday, are G. H. Parker '87, professor of Zoology and director of the Zoological Laboratory, president; J. B. Conant '14, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, vice-president; K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, secretary; W. L. Crum, professor of Economics, treasurer; and L. D. Leet, instructor in Geology, assistant secretary. Parker has been mentioned as a likely possibility for national presidential candidate of the honorary society...