Word: mathers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Leverett House will control Mather Hall until the fall of 1960, although by September, 1959, it will be an enclave in the territory of the University's eighth House...
While many old-style rural homes are having trouble staying at 100% of capacity, those near the bright lights are besieged with more applicants than they can handle. Says Director Lois Slonaker, who has a waiting list of 200 women at Evanston's 115-place Alonzo Mather Home: "What people resent more than anything else in rural locations is the feeling of being put on the shelf and laid aside. Some of our women lead the social life of a debutante...
...retired from Metropolitan but still working hard, Dr. Dublin dug into the fluoridation controversy, spent a year in statistical research. In his report (Water Fluoridation: Facts, Not Myths, published by Manhattan's Public Affairs Committee), he likens the opposition to fluoridation to the bombing of Cotton Mather's house in 1721 because Mather urged vaccination against smallpox, and the early 20th century fanaticism that drove public health workers out of some towns for advocating chlorination of water...
Hoadley was referring to plans for the University's eighth House which will take Mather Hall away from Leverett and replace it with a new building between Grant and Copperthwaite...
...Cotton Mather said: "This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...