Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the thunderheads crashed open for fair. In Washington, the Dies Committee announced that it had been investigating the Institute for Propaganda Analysis for nearly two years, found some of its officers (president: Harvard's Professor Kirtley F. Mather) "frankly left-wing." In Manhattan, a committee of eminent educators, headed by Columbia's Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, was formed by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom to examine the text books attacked by Professor Robey. And in Philadelphia at a P. E. A. meeting over which Professor Miller presided, Professor Rugg and his critics unsheathed...
...plot centers around the attempts of Puritan Cotton Mather '78 to become president of Harvard. All his efforts are foiled, however, and a group of students and professors, by clever stratagem, prevent his election...
...listening intently to a gesticulating Negro particularly caught Vag's attention. The colored fellow's eyes bulged out like white hen's eggs as his face expressed his awe at what he was describing. Vag asked a bystander who the white-haired gentleman was and received the reply, "Cotton Mather, Harvard's next President--worse luck." That was very puzzling, for Vag was as sure that James B. Conant was still President as he was that men wear pants. Just at this moment Vag realized that all the men were wearing knickers...
...still staring at the crowd's clothing when the big Negro ran past him. The black face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change in light blinded him for a moment. When his vision cleared the radio was back on the mantel...
None of the amendments passed by the House have any great significance as a check to the President's power, Professor Mather warned. Professor Simpson, however, discounted dictatorial tendencies in the bill, stating that it merely implements power which has always been the President's since...