Word: mathers
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Radcliffe's College Council approved such a plan on Monday, seting the tax for college services at $270, and the Mather subcommittee of the Committee on Houses approved the idea in principle for Harvard in its report last month to the full Committee...
...overall reduction which Gill expects does not necessarily mean that fewer seniors would move off than now do. About 60 juniors are off-campus this year, and this would not be permitted once Mather House opens in the Fall of 1969. Nonetheless Gill expects that the number of seniors who will want to move off will not be much greater than the 150 which the College allowed off this year. Even now, without the larger fee, Gill said, "living out has a strong appeal for a limited number of students...
...often limit their duties to maintaining the evening grill. The Gill Committee recently concluded that a senior should not be forced to remain on-campus if he is willing to pay his share of administrative expenses. Ideally, seniors should not want to move off campus except in rare circumstances. Mather House may partially ease the problems of over-crowding, and possibly by that time the Masters will extend week-day parietals that currently inconvenience and annoy students. Until then the Houses remain for many merely a convenient place to eat and sleep...
...polls also stated that most students do not move off-campus for financial reasons. This is the main reason the Mather Subcommittee does not believe the off-campus charge will end off-campus living, Gill explained...
...subcommittee also proposed that all juniors and seniors have their own bedrooms. Mather House will be used to deconvert existing suites where these conditions are not met. The tenth house will not be used to boost substantially the number of undergraduates...