Word: mather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Visiting Lecturer in Physics and Associate Director of the Academic Year Institute for Teachers of Science and Mathematics. Rudolph will teach the history of American education. He formerly served as Assistant Professor of History at Williams College. Tyler, who is Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Mather College, will be visiting Lecturer on the Teaching of English...
Fellow scholars tend to agree. The jutting jaw is there; so are the wide, clear eyes, large, firm mouth, and long, slightly turned-up nose. The features are the same as in the next earliest Jefferson portrait known, painted by Mather Brown in 1786. But that picture shows a man marked by struggle, who has come through one of the most momentous decades in human history. Seen through Du Simitière's eyes, the young Jefferson in crisis emerges as a paragon of refined and virile good looks, radiating courage-and hope...
...years since the first honorary doctorate, given to President Mather, the character of the degrees and the qualifications of the recipients have changed. Once reserved almost exclusively for New England theologians, honorary degrees have since been awarded to historians, critics, poets, philosophers, military heroes, and nuclear scientists. Degrees have been democratized and those honored have come increasingly from non-theological professions...
...change in emphasis from recognition of other-worldly to more secular men can be shown by one simple statistic. In the quartercentury 1775-1800, fully 28 per cent of the honorary degrees awarded were S.T.D.'s--the doctorate of theology. President Mather himself became an S.T.D. But in the 184 years since 1875, a mere four and one-half per cent of the total number of honorary degrees have been awarded to theologians...
...first recipient of a special award. Intellectual historians point to Nathaniel Appleton, a Cambridge minister who received the S.T.D. in 1771, as the first undisputed honorary doctor. They eliminate seventeenth-century tutors William Brattle and John Leverett, for they were required to prepare a "Theological" dissertation; President Mather received his award to enhance his position atop the Harvard hierarchy...