Word: mathers
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Muriel Speare Williams, who retired last week as administrative assistant at the Loeb Drama Center of Harvard University, and Professor Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Professor Emeritus of Geology at Harvard, were married yesterday in the Memorial Church of Harvard University...
...Mather, a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is 89 years old. Muriel Mather...
...Kirtley Mather, who gave written testimony in the defense of John T. Scopes in 1925 and as chairman of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1949, was an early and outspoken foe of McCarthyism...
Some film societies, such as Winthrop, Currier and Eliot, have turned to their House committees to pick up debts. For others, that option does not exist. At Mather, the House committee only worried about the film society when they found it was making money, Izkowitz said. Then they didn't donate more--they required it to turn over its profits at the end of the year. "They use us to raise money, but they give us nothing in return. Is it worth $400 for the right to call ourselves the Mather House Film Society? I'd rather open...
Disillusionment with the societies has dealt them a final blow. Mather House took its biggest loss of the season when it ordered Traffic but could not gather enough people to run the movie the weekend it came. Izkowitz returned the film untouched, but had to pay the $150 rental fee anyway. Usually, most of the film societies operate with a core of only five to ten workers, and several more who will move tables if asked. While it is forbiden to pay members, most of the societies use free screenings and parties to entice prospective helpers. "Unless you have...