Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Mather A. Abbott, head coach of the Yale crew, has accepted a position as headmaster of the Lawrenceville School and will leave Yale to take up his new duties next month...
...Increase Mather's Bible Preserved...
...another case, among a collection of manuscripts, is a letter from Benjamin Franklin expressing his concern at the Harvard fire of 1764. The Bible of President Increase Mather and a religious book, believed to be the only volume belonging to John Harvard which survived the fire of 1764, are also preserved. The collection is in a new set of cabinets recently given, together, with some furniture, by the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers to the Treasure Room. The exhibition will be on view for several months...
...Haven, September 30--Two hundred Yale oarsmen answered Coach Mather Abbott's call, yesterday for fall rowing candidates. The crew management has secured this year the services of Mr. Van Santvoord, of Oxford, as assistant crew coach. It will be remembered that Coach Abbott also came from Oxford...
...University of Pennsylvania--Franklin's College," by Horace Mather Lippincott, Penn. '97, has been compiled for the first time, and n a very interesting way, a summary of the different periods of development of Pennsylvania from its founding in 1740 as "The Charity School of Philadelphia" to its present state of high rank among the foremost American universities. With chapters on undergraduate customs; university characters; athletics; the university seal, colors, cheer and songs; this book should appeal strongly to all Penn, alumni; and its historic value and significance in the early affairs of our nation lend it a general interest...