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...Collier system, designed in 1974, by which "ceilings" or maximum numbers of students are now assigned to each House, takes into account the variations in architecture which make the Houses intrinsically inequitable. It uses what's referred to affectionately as "the pain formula" to determine which Houses can afford to be crowded more easily than others...
Administrators agree that the present system is not adequate and must be reexamined. And the COH, for a start, will surely do just that, In time, it is hoped, the Collier formula will be replaced with a more realistic system which will better evaluate the amount and quality of space in the Houses...
...COLLEGE has a complex formula by which it estimates the numbers of resident students each term. Based on four-year statistics, it takes into account leaves of absence, returning students, transfers, and students choosing to live off-campus. But while officials maintain that the formula has met with increased success in accuracy in the last several years, there is an inherent problem with calculating such numbers...
Just what kind of man would fall in love with a woman he knows he doesn't love? A masochist perhaps. Yet Swann's personality isn't reduced to such a simple formula. He is a Jewish assimile whose family's conversion to Christianity is fuel for the gossips of 19th century Paris. He is a talented dilettante always working on an unseen book, an aesthete always surrounded by beautiful objects. Yet any possible cinematic beauty is subdued in Swann's apartments. His rooms look musty, they invite select rays of sun; in short, his enviroment reflects his thoughts...
...scholarship to Oxford and afterward, as an admirable writer, earned much favor in Western eyes. All that those mullahs and ayatullahs seemed to want was to make trouble and pray. Naipaul's report on this journey was written more in anger than sorrow, and the formula that he had earlier used to criticize Argentina (The Return of Eva Perón) or his ancestral homeland (India: A Wounded Civilization) began to seem a trifle predictable: the author regrets to find yet another swatch of the Third World behaving in veddy bad taste...