Word: mathering
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...Oakes perished shortly before Commencement, the authorities seeking a sober ceremony felt compelled to restrict students to a provision of one gallon of wine per man. Despite that one prohibitive graduation, the tradition of imbibement was propagated, climaxing in the "Plum cake scandal" of 1693, when kill-joy President Mather outlawed the tainted pastries, deeming the custom "dishonourable to the Colledge." Needless to say, in spite of various fines imposed by Mather, the tradition survives in one form or another...
There are complaints about the worth of the statistics, too. Elizabeth M. Einaudi '83, a founder of Students Organized for Security (SOS), expressed major concern that police do not collect statistics on crimes against students not committed on Harvard property. For example, one student was raped near Mather House, but the incident did not make it into the police records, because it occurred on non-Harvard property...
Nancy Shields Kollmann, a teaching fellow in History, will become senior tutor at Mather House July 1, pending Corporation approval...
David and Patricia A. Herlihy, comasters of Mather House, submitted Kollmann's name to Dean Fox last month after they, the current senior tutor, resident tutors and students interviewed eight candidates for the position, Patricia Herlihy said yesterday...
...grabbed the ratings lead in January 1977. ABC's profits before taxes jumped spectacularly, from $17 million in 1975 to $110 million in 1977. Silverman was hoping for a repeat of that Olympian performance this year. Says Charles Bachrach, senior vice president at the advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather: "With a bit of decent programming and the expected push from the Olympics, Freddie might have made good on his goal of reaching No. 1 by this Christmas. But the way things look now, he doesn't have a chance...