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...history.”Scarry and Lilly plan to wait until after graduation to get married, listing Memorial Church, Phuket, Cambridge City Hall, or a nice beach in Southern China as possible locales. “If we continue to live in Boston, Widener/Lamont photos are definitely possible. But Mather is so much more photogenic, we would probably go there first,” jokes Scarry in an e-mail. For single undergrads, Scarry and Lilly recommend dormcest as a fool-proof way to find one’s other half. “Dormcest works, we guarantee...
...Modernity and Its Discontents": Christopher B. Lacaria ’09 is a history concentrator in Mather House and the publisher of the Harvard Salient. He will provide a critical look at the absurdities and inanities of the post-modern academy here at Harvard in his column, which will run on alternate Mondays. "Hub Happenings": Stephen C. Bartenstein ’08 is a government concentrator in Lowell House and a proud Lexington, Mass. native. His column will provide mischievously mordant commentary on Bay State life as it relates to the Harvard scholar. On alternate Mondays, Stephen will opine...
...The” Increase Mather, class of 1656, became president in 1692 and would serve until 1701. The first native-born American to become Harvard’s leader, Mather was also the recipient of America’s first honorary S.T.D. (Doctorate in Sacred Theology) from Harvard College...
...Mather was blazing trails. He was also (indirectly involved in) burning witches. In 1684, he published “An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providence,” which, among other things, defended the existence of those pagan priestesses. Although he would later question the methods of the witch trials, he would never denounce them...
...Puritan through and through, Mather saw Harvard as a training ground for Congregational ministers. But he went unsupported in his attempt to insert a clause into the college charter that required future presidents to be orthodox New England Congregationalists. Mather’s attempted sacrifice of the college’s well-being for his own personal beliefs was characteristic of an earlier view of leadership. But changes were...