Word: mather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political debate?have been put out of business by rioters. "All law and government, here as well as elsewhere, seems now nearly at an end," said Sir James Wright, the Royal Governor of Georgia, shortly before quitting the Colonies. Better one tyrant 3,000 miles away, says Boston Minister Mather Byles, than "three thousand tyrants not a mile away...
When Boston Clergyman Cotton Mather learned of the new technique, he tried to persuade local doctors to inoculate as many citizens as possible during the epidemic of 1721. But the city's leading physician called inoculation an "infatuation" and denounced as heathen any treatment adapted from "the Musselmen and faithful people of the prophet Mahomet." Only Mather's friend Dr. Zabdiel Boylston agreed to try the new tactic. Complained Mather: "Not only the physician who began the experiment but I also am the object of the [people's] fury." One opponent of inoculation threw a bomb through...
...freshman heavyweight crew will join Harvard's varsity boats and the Mather House eight in the annual transoceanic odyssey to the Henley regatta later this month...
Lisa Goldman '74 plays a piano recital of 3 B's. Bach's Prelude and Fugue (B major, W.T.C. Book II), Beethoven's Sonata Opus 10 No. 3, Brahms's Handel Variations. Mather Dining Hall...
...knew we had a really good chance, but we thought that Kirkland would be in there too," said Mather coxswain Maurice McWhirter after the race. Kirkland, though, was a distant sixth, never a factor in the race...