Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treat him as a twelve-year-old," insists his mother, who feels that "you couldn't drum all this into a child if he didn't want it." She hoped to get Lance into Harvard, cradle of child prodigies from Cotton Mather, who entered at twelve, to Cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, who was a graduate student at 14. But Harvard now looks askance at taking freshmen under 16. Caltech also rejected Lance because of his age (but will consider him as a graduate student...
...Program for Harvard College was the most important physical factor. The Program reached its stride in late March, 1958, when a nationally-broadcast show, "The Case for the College," emphasized Harvard's need for unlimited wealth, conveniently limited to $82.5 million. As money flowed in, old buildings disappeared: the Mather squash courts, Cambridge tenements behind Dunster, the Radcliffe Health Center, and, most lamentably, Cronin's, fell to the wreckers. The University expanded upward, with seven-story Quincy (irreverently dubbed the "aircraft carrier by the Charles"), 12-story Leverett, the ten-story Health Center, and the proscenium of the Loeb...
...Senior year for the Class of 1936 and the beginning of the Tercentenary celebration ten months later, were eclipsed by a many-faceted dispute over the Teachers Oath Act, which required most instructors in Massachusetts institutions to swear they would support the national and state constitutions. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, struck out against the Massachusetts Legislature's stricture as "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." Mather claimed to speak for many Faculty men when he said he would not take the oath since it violated his constitutional rights. Seniors circulated a petition to support him while Mather reconsidered, then...
...President Kennedy's latest disarmament proposal. The ould allow Soviet scientists to inspect obsolete United States nuclear weapons. organization is attempting to get University students sympathetic to the write their Congressmen. Tocsin will provide typewriters and information and tomorrow in its offices in the "B" entry basement of Mather Hall. In . Tocsin personnel will be on hand to aid any students who need help with , a spokesman said...
...Leverett House and for five years chairman of the General Education Program, Murdock is a scholar of the history and literature of the 17th Century. Known especially for his studies of the literature of Colonial New England, he is the general editor of a forthcoming edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalla Christl Americans...