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BEIRUT, Lebanon—It stands like a giant upturned gray battleship sunk into the ground. No, it isn’t Mather Tower, it’s the burnt-out husk of the former Holiday Inn Beirut...
...founders subscribed to the concept of Providence, but they interpreted it in different ways. Jefferson believed in a rather nebulous sense of "general Providence," the principle that the Creator has a benevolent interest in mankind. Others, most notably those who followed in the Puritan footsteps of Cotton Mather, had faith in a more specific doctrine, sometimes called "special Providence," which held that God has a direct involvement in human lives and intervenes based on personal prayer...
Margaret M. Rossman ’06, an English concentrator in Mather House, is an associate editorial chair of The Crimson. She is soaking in her Irish heritage by drinking pints of Guinness and eating pounds of potatoes, though she swears that she will actually spend more time working this summer than traveling—if only barely...
...acronym refers to Harvard’s most staunchly Puritan president, Increase Mather—who presided over Harvard from 1685 to 1701—after whom Mather House is named. The letter might have been used as an important clue regarding the true origins of the Spring 2004 Interhouse wars...
...agreed to address a student’s question about his views on the war in Iraq only “off the record” at an open Mather House study break in April...