Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advent of the tutorial system into geology has been preceded by experimentation in isolated geologica courses. Most significant is the fact that the Department has not been content with this; that, as Professor Mather says elsewhere in this issue, to the other requirements of a degree from Harvard College in geology has been added an ability, certified by General Examination to orient oneself within the entire field. Only the first tentative year of the tutorial system, in the Department of History, Government and Economics, takes precedence over the experiment of the Departments of Geology and Biology. The eyes...
Last night Professor K. F. Mather professor of Geology in the University made the following statement...
Headmaster Mather A. Abbott of Lawrenceville: ". . .A greater sense of social responsibility. In fact, I "have an idea that times have changed and that boys are holding up morality...
Commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Cotton Mather, of the Class of 1678, the Treasure Room of Widener Library is now displaying a collection of his works. Among the articles of particular interest are some manuscript sermons, one or two personal letters written in Latin, several books that belonged to him, and numerous rare editions of his works. Among the sermons is one bearing the title, "Sermon upon the Duties wherein and Reasons whereof young people should become Religious...
...Cotton Mather was born in Boston in 1663, the son of Increase Mather, one time president of the University. He took his Bachelor's Degree at the age of 15, and later became a member of the Board of Fellows. A biographical account says, "Mather's day was a continuous church service. He sang psalms, catechized servants, sang more psalms, and entertained his wife (during his life he had three) by reading religious exercises." In spite of his religious bent, Mather was an enthusiastic scientist, and years before Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, was born, he had advocated inoculation...