Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advisory Committee on Civil Rights has been formed by a group of professors including Zachariah Chafes, Jr. Langdell Professor of Law; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, to provide information and to give legal advice concerning the Selective Service...
Other members of the Civil Rights Committee besides Professors Chafee, Mather, and Holcombe include Morris B. Lambie, professor of Government; Henry J. Cadbury, director of the Andover Harvard Theological Library; and Raymond Dennett, Graduate Secretary of P.B.H...
...Teachers' Union heads, Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, were no less strong in their attack of an "attitude of mind more in harmony with the fascist philosophy of social organization than with the democratic...
Professor Mather saw the real issue presented by Dr. Butler's statement as "the old problem of who it is that determines what "social learning" and moral teaching" are. If the faculty is to partake in the important matter of determining these things, differences of opinion may arise. He expressed the hope that President Butler's example would not be followed by the President of other universities "dedicated to the free pursuit of knowledge...
...recent years Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has admitted a fine van Gogh, a good Cézanne, a very expensive Gauguin. But as late as 1926 F. W. Coburn, art critic of the Boston Herald, still denounced modernism in the tones of a Cotton Mather. To Pundit Coburn, Cézanne was a poor painter whose good dinners caused his friends to "whoop it up for him and get his pictures admitted to places where they wouldn't otherwise have been received"; van Gogh was "a crazy galoot who cut off his own ear to spite...