Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years, as aging (69) President William Mather cut back his own schedule, Vice President Crump shouldered much of the management. He directed the railway's dieselization program, cut costs and built up the profit margin ($27 million in 1954) despite a drop in revenues. Buck Crump has traveled nearly every mile of C.P.R.'s far-flung system, often in the engineer's cab, has a first-hand knowledge of his company's multiple enterprises and is known by sight by nearly every one of his 87,000 employees...
...Salem, he had only nineteen hanged, although another was pressed to death for refusing to testify. If Judge Stoughton was, perhaps, overzealous in his religion, at least his fervor overflowed into education, for he endowed Harvard with several scholarships, a pasture, and Stoughton Hall. In 1700, during Increase Mather's presidency, Stoughton "College" was built at right angles to the cast end of Harvard Hall. The second brick building in the Yard, it had three stories and an attic lighted by dormer windows...
Sensible people have long recognized that Harvard's chief contribution to education lies in its service as a trade school, catering to the practical and necessary vocations rather than to those fit only for scholars in ivory towers. But the recent burning of a Mather Hall bulletin board has pointed up one glaring deficiency in the training program. Two dollar fines will never "make 150 detectives in Mather"; crime-tracing instruction is necessary...
With the student sleuths so grossly inept, the University would be foolish to spend its three hundred dollars to rebuild wooden bulletin boards in Mather. It could better use this sum to run a short course in detective-science, teaching young criminologists how to discover who burned the notice boards...
...examinations the student detectives could most convincingly prove their value. The trained snoopers might serve as exam proctors, saving the University thousands of dollars a year. And with the saving in the first year, the Mather bulletin boards could be rebuilt in bronze: shiny, handsome, and indestructible...