Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strictly speaking, this circle should be named Canaday Hell, after the den of architectural perversity masquerading as a freshman dorm. It's a little known fact that the building of both Canaday and Mather House was secretly funded by Yale...
Despite these inauspicious beginnings, the little school that Cotton Mather called a "college of divines" slowly grew. William Stoughton, '50, who grimly sentenced 20 people to death for witchcraft, was the first alumnus to donate a building. (By contrast, the Rev. George Burroughs, '70, duly became the only Harvard man to be hanged for consorting with Satan...
...still flourishes, if only as a mystique accumulated through time, like the water particles that make up an imposing cloud. "The very name Harvard has a kind of resonance," says Alumna Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago. Harvard is, after all, the school that educated Cotton Mather and Robert Oppenheimer and whose former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Henry Rosovsky, turned down the presidency of Yale in 1977 because he had important work to do at Harvard. It is the university where a student named Henry Thoreau pronounced himself bored, but where such creative...
...Institute offers courses in Ukrainian literature, language and history, in addition to guest lectures, films and a unique residential plan, which houses nearly all the HURI students together on the third floor of Mather House...
Many students add that a significant portion of their Ukrainian education comes from their classmates. Grouped together in Mather House, they say they are discovering other Ukrainians share similar concerns about their heritage as them...