Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mather group revised the ideal capacity figures used by Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College, to support his contention that Mather is "relatively less crowded" than any other House. Instead of counting only the number of bedrooms in a House to obtain its ideal capacity, they also added in the number of living rooms...
...excellence of this production is due, above all, to the conspicuous talents of the four leads. The role of Elsie, the youthful ideal of maidenhood, is a flat one to begin with, and Ellen Burkhardt offers little more than freshness and smiles to fill it out; but her voice is so stirring and powerful that it overwhelms any deficiencies in her acting. By contrast, Linda Anne Kirwan is a gifted comedienne, handling the part of Pheobe with real comic flair and singing well, if less vigorously than her rival. Roberto Gaston makes an extraordinarily winning Fairfax, with his broad toothy...
Collier responded to the Memo's claim that Mather House is "severely overcrowded" by saying Wednesday that Mather is actually "relatively less crowded" than any other House. Collier supports this statement by comparing the percentage of residents who exceed "ideal capacity" (the number of single bedrooms) in each House. For Mather this percentage is 14.6, a lower figure than that of any other House...
However, Mather students have vigorously challenged the validity of this percentage. Ken Josselyn '77, author of the Memo article, said the 14.6 figure is "fairly arrived at but meaningless" because the ideal capacity figure on which it is based is a biased...
Mather House has fewer living rooms and more bedrooms than the other River Houses. Because Collier includes bedrooms in the ideal capacity figure, other Houses appear to be more crowded because their living room space is not taken into account...