Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frogs during these 20 years, and the Bulletin, by publishing articles like "The Religion of a Scientist" by Kirtley F. Mather, and "A Liberal Education Viewed in Later Life" by brooks Atkinson '17, was gradually establishing a national reputation for distinguished journalism...
...first large gift from a young minister--John Harvard--in 1638. But liberalism clashed with orthodoxy even at its inception. This time liberalism lost out. The college's first president, Henry Dunster, was forced to resign because of his doubts as to the validity of infant baptism. Cotton Mather, a later president wrote of him, "he fell into the briers of Antipacdobaptism...
Even the faculty seems to be organizing Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is chairman of a national organization formed last year, The Faculty Christian Fellowship. This is a loosely knit organization of professors throughout the country who have a concern for understanding the relation of religious commitment to objective teaching. It aims to discover the "implications of Christianity for the work of the teacher...
...Mather, 66, is a professor of Geology and also Curator of the Geological Museum. He has written extensively on the utilization of natural resources, and is an authority on petroleum geology. In 1951, he served as A.A.A.S. president...
Long a nationally controversial figure on the academic freedom issue, Mather has tangled verbally during the last few years with Senators McCarthy of Wisconsin, Jenner of Indiana, and McCarran of Nevada. He testified last February before the Massachusetts Commission investigating Communism in education...