Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mather House residents, upset over the removal of their hot breakfast, grew decidedly testy at the removal of all heat from their dining hall. During the peak of last winter, the students--many of whom had grown accustomed to wearing coats to meals--lobbied to have a thermometer placed in the hall. Buildings and Grounds officials were properly mollified to learn that the dining hall was heated to a less-than-balmy 60 degrees, and then did nothing...
Quincy House was the most popular House in this year's freshman housing poll, surpassing last year's favorite, Leverett. The freshman also displayed a marked distaste for concrete, ranking Mather House last among the River Houses, ahead of only perennial tailhangers North and South...
...SOMEONE who has never spent an evening under the footlights (it can get very dark under the stage) I came to the Mather House dining hall after dinner on Wednesday out of sheer curiosity. Would the production feature midgets? Dachsunds? My questions were answered right away as I walked in, and was confronted by a bevy of real, live, normal-sized troupers who charmed their way into my heart with some hefty renditions of some hefty Broadway show-stoppers. The show stopped each time a song ended, as the ten talented cast members re-positioned themselves on the stage...
Born in Chicago, Ill. on February 13, 1888, Mather received a B.S. degree in geology from Denison University in 1909 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1915. He taught at the University of Arkansas, Queen's University in Canada and Denison University before coming to Harvard in 1924 as an associate professor. He became professor of Geology in 1927 and professor emeritus...
...Mather's many books include "Old Mother Earth,""Science in Search of God," and"The Earth Beneath Us,"which won the 1964 publication award of the Geographical Society of Chicago as "the best book on science for lay readers...