Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school year. With indirect federal subsidies suddenly imperiled, the town cannot decide whether to spend less in the future or tax itself more. "We must face economic realities," intones Budget Basher John Lupton, a silver-haired onetime advertising executive remotely related to Puritan Spoilsport Cotton Mather. But Lupton is having trouble convincing his neighbors that his newly formed antiwaste group, COST (Coalition Opposing Soaring Taxes) is not antieducation...
Since 1931, the House system--enlarged in 1960 with the additions onto Leverett and Qunicy, and a decade later with the construction of Mather and Currier--has provided undergraduates with a dining hall, library and an intellectual and social base they can call their own. But, in recent years and with growing regularity, Houses have also been a domain for faulty heat and plumbing, peeling paint and plaster and some of the College's biggest headaches. "Some rooms are 100 degrees, some are ten. I have one roommate who uses a space heater. Another one keeps his window open...
...world of GSA's Saturday night dances at Phillips Brooks House (PBH), Schatz and a few other Adams House friends would try going to House parties, attempting to integrate Harvard social life with tactics reminiscent of 1960s Freedom Riders. "So many times, I remember, we would go to a Mather House party, start dancing and the party would stop all of a sudden and we would be told to leave. It was pretty ridiculous; there were four of us out of 40 people at a party and people would get upset and say. 'The gays are taking over...
...Harvard." Colantuono observes that the number of gay students who are politically active increases with each class. "There is a geometric progression--the younger they are, the more there are." Gays are also not isolated in Adams House any longer. "There is a sizeable gay community that out in Mather and North House," Colantuono says. And the administrators, even those who do not look favorably on the expansion of the overtly gay population, have been forced by the political debates and activism of the last year to recognize its existence: "It is interesting to hear Bok or Rosovsky refer...
December 9--F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of freshman and master of Mather House, resigns after 30 years in the Harvard administration...