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Designed to guide University Hall in its yearly task of placing freshmen in the 12 residential Houses, the so-called "Collier formula" is a complex scheme to determine the crowding capacity of each House. According to Currier House Master Dudley R. Hershbach, who is studying the Collier formula this year. Harvard considers "ideal occupancy" in the Houses as one student per bedroom. The Houses have 3581 bedrooms, but need to accommodate some 4600 students. The problem, then, is how to distribute the approximately 1000 students who seemingly don't have places to live...
...freshmen are run through the Housing lottery each year, the University funnels data on each House and its accommodations through the Collier formula to set quotas on how many of the 1000 overflow students each House can take. What Hershbach contends--and what previous studies have determined--is that the formula fails to account for some of the differences in physical attributes among the Houses, resulting in excessive crowding in some Houses and more comfortable situations in others...
...musical's settings include the Mother Load Brothel and the town of Collier Bluff...
...Vogue contributor who was given access to company files, Nast was not quite what he seemed. He was a parvenu from the provinces, raised in St. Louis, the second son of a ne'er-do-well speculator. Through a Georgetown University classmate, he landed a job at Collier's Weekly, and by 1909 had learned enough about publishing to buy an obscure high-society weekly journal. He improved everything-the paper, the fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most influential, and most lucrative, arbiter of fashion...
...narrative of 10,000 words or a terse moral fable. In Short Shorts, Editor Irving Howe (World of Our Fathers) and his wife liana have decided to explore the far end of the genre. None of their selections requires more than eleven pages (D.H. Lawrence's A Sick Collier); some need four (Grace Paley's Wants). But the works are small only in measure. All contain social and psychological resonances that sound long after this remarkable book is closed. A few are comic, like James Thurber's If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox, a portrait...