Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After they had laid the cornerstone-and it was for George Washington University's** new law school building, in Washington, D. C.-they commemorated the university's first commencement exercises with a centennial ceremony, including the dedication of a Lafayette memorial alcove in the university library. William Mather Lewis, George Washington University's President, declared the day notable...
...what about the parent? 'Child,' said the mother of Increase Mather, 'if thou art a good Christian and a good scholar, then art all that thy mother ever hoped for thee.' How many of the boys who now fail to meet our standard of scholarship have been led to suppose that their parents measure a boy's success in college largely by his success as a scholar? I do not know. But I do know that, no matter how hard professors and headmasters may work to replace low ideals of scholarship by high ones, our successful scholars will...
Further misfortune befell Little Red Riding Harvard. This time the grandmother was Bruin Brown. A wild backward pass from Acting-Centre Robb of Harvard flew over Halfback Mather's head, was snared by Keefer, visiting halfback. Forward passes brought Brown near the Harvard goal. Klump clumped over. Spectators at this game eyed with interest the Brown centre, Eckstein, vendor of blood*! Score: Brown 7, Harvard...
Western Reserve-in whose history and upbuilding such men as John Hay, U. S. Secretary of State under Roosevelt; Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U. S. President; Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France; Newton D. Baker, onetime U. S. Secretary of War; and Samuel Mather, Cleveland coal and iron man have figured-has specialized principally in the liberal arts. The Case School is chiefly scientific. Where the two overlap, waste motion is now seen. The proposed amalgamation would leave each institution separate autonomy under unified control, would, by extension of their activities, try "to lead higher education...
...Ford, '94, authority on Spanish literature; Professor C. H. Haring, '07, who came to Harvard from Yale two years ago to teach Latin American history; Professor F. W. C. Lieder '07, of the German department; Professor Andre Morize, Dr. K. B. Murdock, '16, whose book on Increase Mather is shortly to be published by the University Presa; Professor C. R. Post, '04, recently exchange professor to Princeton; and Professor F. N. Robinson, '09, former chairman of the department of English...