Word: mathering
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Dunster and Mather Houses, coming out for tradition, will host their annual sing-in December 15, presenting the single piece most consistently associated with the Christmas season: Handel's Messiah. It's often forgotten that this glorious oratorio was composed at an entirely unseasonal time of year, and traces the whole life of Christ, not just the Nativity. But who cares--all those baroque flourishes suggest nothing if not Christmas trees, and the chorus praising, "God, who doth make Intercession for us" is as mercifully timely as ever. A Week of Music Back Society Orchestra: Sanders Theatre Saturday 12/11...
...when the Quad was still under Radcliffe jurisdiction. Harvard officials basically distributed extra students equally among the River Houses, which can accomodate crowding largely through the use of living room space and large bedrooms. But when the Quad Houses came under the Harvard system--and after the architecturally distinct Mather House, New Quincy, and Leverett towers were added--equal distribution became a thing of the past...
...apparent answer, which Wacker says will come via a report by the end of the term, is a resounding "yes." Committee members--the Quad masters plus Mather House Masters David and Patricia Herlihy and Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49--hedge somewhat in discussing specifics. Says Hershbach: "I don't want to steal all the thunder." Nevertheless, the masters are making clear they see the need for further substantive improvements in Quad living. These will probably include a revision of House assignment formulas which severely affect the Quad's crowding situation (see accompanying story), and a call for major...
After Kirkland's 6-0 triumph over Leverett and Lowell's 6-6 tie with the combined Dunster- Mather forces yesterday, league commissioner Floyd Wilson did not know which team will qualify for the playoffs...
Ironically, one of the biggest single dangers for a start-up catalogue business is failure to prepare for the orders that can come flooding in. Warns Jerome Pickholz, president of Ogilvy & Mather Direct Response Inc.: "You just can't send out a catalogue and think, presto, you're a millionaire." Experts estimate that as many as half of all new catalogue ventures fail within two years...