Word: mather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the Mather figures provide a more accurate representation of the crowding situation than Collier's numbers is a highly debat able point...
...crux of the problem is the wide discrepancy between Mather's bedroom-living room ratio and that of the other River Houses...
...ratio at Mather causes Collier's system to penalize Mather for its large number of bedrooms...
...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...
This revision resulted in a complete flip-flop of Mather's ranking in what has become the House crowding standings. According to the new adjusted figures, Mather appears to be the most crowded House...