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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...
Crimson tennis player Andy Chaikovsky likes to respond to excuse-makers with an old Ukrainian saying his father taught him: "If grandmother had wheels, she'd be trolley car." During Harvard's showdown match with powerhouse Princeton at the Palmer Dixon courts yesterday, there were enough "ifs" and excuses to form a fleet of trolley cars. But unfortunately for the Crimson, most of the close matches got away as the Tigers clinched the Eastern League tennis crown with a 7-2 victory...
When I was a soldier, I was taught: "If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, whitewash it." Today's militant, if unsoldierly extremists have a simpler philosophy: whether it moves or not, kidnap it. We have seen the kidnaping of a Goya, a Fellini film, the corpse of a great comedian, an Italian political leader. We are shocked, but perhaps some of the shock comes from awareness that we are not shocked enough. We have already imagined most conceivable outrages against law and decency, or had them imagined for us in drugstore bestsellers or films...
Although Beer will take advantage of retirement regulations that allow him to teach on a half-time basis, Soc Sci 2, which Beer has taught for 30 years, will be gone from Harvard forever...
Several graduate students interviewed at MIT found fault with the narrowness of the program, however. Thomas R. Bailey '76, a second-year student, said that "what you get taught is not particularly broad. In terms of interest, there's no serious teaching of radical economics...