Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the state Legislative Judiciary Committee, petitioners including some members of the Harvard Faculty, yesterday sought the abolition of the death penalty for criminal offenses. Among the group was Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Professors Zechariah Chafee, Jr. and Sheldon Glueck of the Law School...
Julius B. Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, have indicated their cooperation with organizations bent on formulating a seven-point program to correct serious social ills...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Government, who was the spearhead of the Faculty attack in 1937, believed that the bill would pass in both the House of Representatives and the Senate as it did last year before it was stamped with Governor Hurley's veto...
...reply to the Governor's message to the Legislature in which he reaffirmed his support of the Curley law, Mather said: "My only reply to Hurley is that so many people disagree with his conclusion that the Teachers' Oath is in-offensive' that in all probability it will be an item of considerable importance in the campaign for election of Governor in the fall...
These artists were chosen by a jury composed of Art Writer Thomas Craven, Princeton's Professor Frank Jewett Mather Jr., Chicago Art Institute's Director Robert B. Harshe. Editor Frederic A. Whiting Jr. of the Magazine of Art and TIME Inc.'s President Henry R. Luce. Without waiting on ceremony, the jury had previously awarded a "fellowship" to Artist Grant Wood for a set of illustrations to Main Street. Artist Wood's work, like that of Missourian Benton, Kansan Curry and New Yorkers Marsh & Poor, is for the Limited Editions Club members only...