Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least offers the opportunity to its alumni of coming back to the campus at stated times to drink again from the fountain of learning and of youth, and to receive a little intellectual stimulation with which to offset some of the stress of our modern world. As President William Mather Lewis has said, the "camel theory" of education, whereby colleges expect their students to drink deeply in their undergraduate days, and then not to need refreshment again the rest of their lives, is completely fallacious. The college must offer a "recharging service" to its alumni whose batteries have run down...
President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College Litt.D...
...same time they turned in another direction, and the employment or "placement" bureau appeared in hundreds of institutions which felt themselves under an obligation not only to "educate" their students but to get them started in some sort of life that would satisfy them. The results -- and President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette has described some of them in a recent brochure -- were a little unexpected. That very enlargement and de-humanization of industry which seemed to make it so difficult for the undergraduate to break in tended to work on the side of the colleges. The great modern undertaking...
...interested but non-interfering observer of this Episcopalian incident was Bishop Abbott's elder brother, Mather Almon Abbott, headmaster of Lawrenceville School, a Presbyterian...
...western war games, Flyer-Artist Clayton Knight sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography, the radiophoto device was developed by Westinghouse Electric...