Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett is one of the less well known Houses. It labors under the handicap of a building which is not altogether new. McKinlock Hall, the old Freshman Dormitory, was combined with the newly constructed Mather to complete the unit. But despite this Leverett maintains an attractive and congenial atmosphere. The public rooms are large and graceful with an air of comfortable informality. In decorating the dining room, one of the handsomest features of the House Plan, the architects made skilful use of two circles, of unequal size, and an oval, to conceal through optical illusion the fact that the room...
...homely squash courts complete the physical facilities of the House. They serve the dual purpose of affording exercise and screening in modest fashion the execrable frame houses with their clothes lines that form a bleachers for the Mather courtyard...
Crew A: Stroke, Herman; 7, deBraganca; 6, Hamblet, 5, Morison; 4, Carman; 3, Johnston; 2, Watson; Bow, Mather...
Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Ph.D., S.D., professor of Geology, will conduct the services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
...over ten years Leverett become more and more popular," said Professor Morison, "and seen the leader of the liberal element at Harvard. He and his supporters were opposed by licensee Mather 1606 then rector (president) of the University. This bitter struggle between the conservative and liberal causes, which involved particularly the fields of theology and education, spread all over New England. Leverett finally left Harvard, and within a few years became a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts...