Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some twenty courses in arts and sciences, not offered on the regular Harvard College winter curriculum, will be scheduled by the six-week summer session starting July 1, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and director, announced today...
Among the visitors will be Professor Henry N. Russell, Director of Princeton Observatory; Robert E. Marshak, University of Rochester, collaborator with H. A. Bethe on the theory of generation of solar energy; Ivan A. Getting, Research Fellow in preventive medicine and epidemiology, Harvard cosmic ray specialist; Professor Mather; and others...
...summer school expects an enrollment of between 2000 and 2500 students, will have a faculty of 173 from 25 colleges and universities, and will offer altogether 250 courses, Dr. Mather said. Most of the courses count as a half-course toward the Harvard degree. The work is open to both men and women, without formal academic requirements for admission...
...started because Vag had been listening to Professor Kirtley Mather lecture on the historical geology of the world. Perhaps Vag might not have been so disconsolate if Geology covered only the field of geology. But as it was, Geology included astronomy, biology, paleontology, zoology, and a host of other "ologies." And Vag was feeling despondent because every one of these fields seemed to impress him with his own insignificance...
...thought his six-foot frame was quite a respectable size, until Professor Mather told him that the brontosaurus grew to a length of 95 feet. He thought the earth which he inhabited was pretty roomy, until he was told that all of its fellow planets have only one seven-hundredth of the bulk of the solar system, and even the sun, which contains all of the rest of the volume, is just a second or third rate star...