Word: mather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grapefruit-sized eightball rests on the president's desk. Perhaps no other symbol could as well represent six years of trials and tribulations for Dr. J. Paul Mather, president of the University of Massachusetts and center of one of the greatest educational controversies in the history of this state. During the six years of his fight to achieve relative independence from the state governmental bureaucracy his black hair has turned almost white and his forehead became crossed with lines of worry; aged 44, Mather looks closer...
...University of Massachusetts--UMass--had long since thrown off the the "agricultural school" odium before Mather moved into the presidency in 1954. But primarily through Mather's efforts the Amherst school is raising itself from the lower ranks of educational society into the upper reaches--despite the interference of the state legislature. The short-sighted efforts of a few senators on Beacon Hill brought about the president's resignation early last month, ignited public controversy, and demonstrated the tremendous changes in the seam-splitting state university...
...former Teaching Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, I wish to commend you for your Aug. 31 article showing the outstanding achievements of President Mather in developing the university into a first-rate educational institution. It is unfortunate that Senator Powers and his colleagues have seen fit to place personal ambitions ahead of the progress of the university and the commonwealth...
...discredit Mather, Powers' supporters muttered darkly about "the educator with the maids and chauffeurs." (Mather has one maid; a non-uniformed university mechanic occasionally drives his car.) Mather is also the nation's lowest-paid public university president ($15,000 a year). But the propaganda cut deep; Mather resigned largely to "stop this personal monkey business" (he will stay through next June). To Educator Mather, it seems unlikely that culture-conscious Massachusetts will lose one of its oddest distinctions-spending less (2.32%) of the tax dollar for higher education than any other state in the Union...
claims direct descent from New England's fiery Preacher Cotton Mather...