Word: mather
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...Saturday's slalom, Radcliffe finished in back of UMass and Boston University. Lenny Wilson placed seventh, 4.6 seconds behind the winner. Carlyle Singer took ninth and Jane Mather finished 14th...
Filling deanships and vice presidencies isn't all that Bok will be concerned about, however. Bok says he "will be working with Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, on several appointments" including a new dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and new masters for Mather and North House. Bok also claims a personal interest in the selection of a new director of Buildings and Grounds. He says he is "not satisfied that we are providing service as efficiently and economically as possible" in that department...
Stephen S.J. Hall hails the winter-vacation "cold-zone" program as a qualified success. "Maybe we didn't save as much money as we would have liked," Hall says, "but the distribution of coldness within the projected cold zones exceeded our most optimistic predictions, especially temperature-wise." He declares Mather House, Claverly Hall and the Quad to be permanent cold zones...
...that there was no gentleness and compassion shown children. Even Cotton Mather, that stern Calvinist moralist, loved his children and tried to be attentive and considerate toward them; certainly he showed them affection and even a humorous side of his personality. But especially in New England, children were held to strict account. A parent's love was measured by his or her sternness, though historical accounts show mothers less demanding and more acquiescent than fathers-and Southerners far more easygoing than Northerners. In fact, among the Southern gentry, children were virtually handed over to an assorted collection of nurses...
Many of our contemporary educational problems and controversies can be understood as part of a persisting American ideological commitment to success-to a firm belief in its possibility, to a desire for proof of its achievement, here and now. Even Cotton Mather, no pagan hedonist or crass materialist or psychologically "oriented" suburbanite, wanted his children to prosper-and saw in such a fate for them a realization of himself. Today many of us fight for our children as if it were heaven itself we have in mind as we roll up our sleeves or bare our teeth. If public schools...