Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the 30 Freshmen who waited in restless exile at Mather Hall earlier this summer before receiving permanent House assignments are still there and, except for 32 officers of the Army Air Forces Statistical school, who will leave July 31, Mather is empty for the second time in a hectic wartime career of one year...
...June of 1943 Leverett House, of which Mather Hall is a part, was closed to civilians in order to make room for the first units of the ASTP. Two groups, one studying Personnel Psychology, the other Advanced Phases of Foreign Area and Language Studies, were quartered at Leverett and Winthrop in time to start classes on June...
Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
...level, a large group of replacements arrived yesterday. About 80 of the new men are in the basic group, with approximately 125 more in the foreign area and language division, and about 35 sanitary engineers. The foreign area and language students will be housed in Mather Hall, Leverett House, with the others living in other parts of Leverett and in Winthrop House...
From Cotton Mather to F. D. R. In Mainstream Hamilton Basso has a new character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like...