Word: mather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mather House, Harvard's planned tenth House, may not be completed by its target date of September, 1969, because University estimates of construction costs have not been met by bids from any prospective builders...
...planned, the House will consist of a 21-story main building surrounded by three five-story sections. The low-rise sections will contain the dining hall, library, common rooms, and rooms for resident tutors and a few students. The bulk of Mather students will live in the 200-foot all tower...
...University plans to bring the 100 undergraduates now living in Claverly back to the Houses proper. These men will occupy 100 of the 400 places in Mather House, leaving 300 places free for men from the other Houses. Since there are currently more than a thousand students living in converted suites, it is clear that Mather will not be the final answer to overcrowding, one more reason for the Committee on the Houses to support a policy of unrestricted off-campus living...
Whatever deconversion Mather permits will make all the Houses that much more livable--and will allow Senior tutors, their staffs, and Faculty associates to spend more times with each student, to develop those personal relations which are the sine qua non of the House system...
...University has indicated that because of its complex budgeting procedures all the Houses, Mather included, will have to pay for themselves. The total upkeep of the Houses will have to be balanced by the rents collected from students. If, as is to be hoped, no one is forced back to the campus and the rooms are thus filled with men from other Houses, this position amounts to a demand for a raise in room rents...