Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eric Foner's analysis of the Republican Party, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. But the discussion quickly turned from Foner to Clifford Geertz, a cultural anthropologist that none of the dozen or so history concentrators assembled in a Mather classroom had ever heard...
...more than stringent. Access of "outsiders" to the houses was limited, a xenophobic move by supposedly egalitarian Harvard if ever there was one. The obsession with proper Harvard identification was so complete that one student who ran out without her burser's card couldn't get back into her Mather House room until nightfall...
...former professional tour guide, John has provided numerous extracurricular opportunities for Mather residents to learn about history firsthand...
Last year John formed the Mather House Day Trip Society to take students to historic New England sites. Students last year visited Mark Twain's house in Hartford, Sarah Orne Jewett's house in Maine, the Peabody Museum and Salem Custom House in Salem, as well as other places of historical interest...
...extremely important to experience the past and not just to read about it, to walk through people's houses, to visit battlefields, to look at machinery, to hear machinery," said John, who started a Mather House dinner series on "The History of Technology...