Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thursday at 4.30 o'clock Professor F. J. Mather Jr. of Princeton University will take as his subject, "'St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata' at the Fogg Art Museum and Other Paintings by Giotto in America." The painting referred to is one of the art treasures of the Museum and is especially valuable as it is one of the few paintings by Giotto in America. Both of the lectures will be given in the large lecture room at the Museum...
...smiled a clerk. "It is by Tintoretto you know.* Until a few weeks ago it belonged to the estate of the late Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.† Professor Frank Jewett Mather is trying to buy it for Princeton University, and we value it at between...
Deans and professors representing the colleges and universities are: J. P. Adams, Brown; G. P. Bacon, Tufts; F. W. Brown, Bowdoin; H. M. Dadourian, Trinity; A. C. Hanford, Harvard; B. A. Hazeltine, Middlebury; L. A. Howland, Wesleyan; Craven Laycock, Dartmouth; H. P. Little, Clark; T. R. Mather, Boston University; K. B. Murdock, Harvard; C. S. Potter, Amherst; T. C. Smith, Williams; Elijah Swift, Frederick Tupper, Vermont; C. H. Warren, Yale; W. M. Warren, Boston University; F. G. Wren, Tufts...
Died. Samuel Mather, 80, shipping, mining and steel tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.), first citizen of Cleveland; of heart disease; in Cleveland. Son of Samuel Livingston Mather who founded Cleveland Iron Mining Co. and the family fortune, he was a famed philanthropist, a director of U. S. Steel and many another great corporation. Holder of 60,000 shares of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., he battled Cyrus Stephen Eaton over a proposed merger with Bethlehem Steel Corp., won last week when the project was finally dropped. Steelman Mather's 15-year-old grandson took his own life (hanging) last month (TIME...
Professor Murdock has been mentioned before as one who has a future at Harvard. Onetime (1919-22) assistant dean of the college, he is the author of two scholarly books on Puritan Increase Mather. He is an able executive, and (like most successful junior savants) he has eschewed the eccentricities which were once almost obligatory to fame. There have clustered about him no such legends as those relating to Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland or bushy-lipped Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department, who sometimes goes bicycling in Edwardian shepherd's-plaid knickerbockers. Professor Murdock...