Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor K. F. Mather, seismologist for the University and one of the most prominent geological authorities in the country, in an interview with the CRIMSON, said that the earthquake in Concord had no connection with the devastating one in Japan...
...Concord earthquake was of a sort very apt to occur in New England when the ground melts in early spring, said Professor Mather, and is caused by small faults developing along frost cracks. The recent Japanese quake, however, was brought about by a slipping of land masses along a fundamental fault which lies near the shore. The serious Japanese earthquake of 1923 was also caused by this same fault...
...mystery surrounding gruff, impetuous, well-loved Dr. Mather Almon Abbott's resignation as headmaster of Lawrenceville School (TIME, Feb. 21), remained a mystery. And Dr. Abbott, withdrawing his resignation, remained headmaster. Whatever it was that had prompted the resignation?an offer from another school? a quarrel with the trustees over a four-year-old medical supervision policy??was kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville...
...boys had heard nothing, even the assistant headmaster was amazed, when Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of famed Lawrenceville (N. J.) School, was reported by President John Nixon of the Board of Trustees, to have resigned. The Rev. Mr. Nixon assigned as cause Dr. Abbott's disapproval of a four-year-old policy of medical supervision. He also mentioned "a very flattering offer . . . made Dr. Abbott by another school with strong financial backing." Dr. Abbott only said: "I love this place. ... I dare say nothing. I have no money." There was an air of mystery...
...book was written by Cotton Mather, and published in London in 1702. It was presented to the library by Miss Louisa Loring Dresel of Cambridge in whose family the book has been handed down for over 200 years...