Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mather House Dining Hall...
House 1987 1986 1985 1984 Adams 136 121 131 148 Cabot 132 132 117 120 Currier 135 141 145 147 Dunster 121 107 126 115 Eliot 153 126 144 162 Kirkland 113 102 123 110 Leverett 135 161 161 144 Lowell 119 167 154 128 Mather 130 151 116 137 North 131 98 122 79 Quincy 164 174 142 170 Winthrop...
...Memorial Hall. There they would make their house choices based on the availability of room in each house. If a rooming group found that their true first choice house (say Eliot) was full, it could check out the capacity of other popular houses before "settling" for Mather or Cabot...
...other words, only the people who really wanted to live in Dunster or Mather would make it their second choice. Similarly, people who really want to live in Eliot would be able to make Winthrop or Kirkland their real second-choice. Unscientific polls by The Crimson would not be unnecessary; nobody would have to try to second-guess the popularity of a house. Nobody would list a house that was really his ninth choice as his second choice...
Even in the midst of the housing lottery freshmen were reluctant to trek up to the Quad or down to Mather on a night that fits someone else's schedule. I should have been prepared to eat dinner by myself when I scheduled a trip to Currier House. I wasn't, and I couldn't help feeling angry and unwanted...