Word: mather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Mather House seniors yesterday urged their classmates in the House to withhold payment of pledges to the Harvard-Radcliffe College Fund until the University "takes significant steps" to reduce overcrowding in Mather...
...group includes all four Mather House class agents, students from the Class of '76 who solicit pledges from their classmates for the College Fund, and the House's two class committee representatives...
...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...
These statistics may prove that Mather really is the most crowded House. However, all they will really show is that anyone can prove anything he wants with statistics. And that is something that any visitor to Bruce Collier's basement lair soon discovers...