Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subcommittee studying the impact of Mather House on the College has suggested cutting down off-campus living and deconverting crowded suites in the present Houses as possible ways to fill the tenth House...
...Chicago's Mather High School, an honors class in physics is discussing the properties of gas. "They mix together," volunteers one student. "They expand and contract," says another. How about constructing a model, suggests Teacher Daniel Cieslik: "Should it look like a big wad of cotton? That expands and contracts." By prodding and questioning, Cieslik eventually gets the class to focus on the rapid molecular motion that characterizes gases...
...Gill committee is studying the impact of Mather House on Harvard, and is considering the possibility of using Mather to close Claverly Hall and restrict off-campus living. The committee is also considering two other possibilities--increasing the size of the College class and converting presently overcrowded suites in other houses...
Peter F. Weller '68, an HPC member who is attending meetings of the Gill committee, said the HPC-HUC resolution would stress "the use of Mather House for deconversion, stating that everyone should have his own bedroom...
Even if every room in Mather were used for deconversion of suites in other Houses, several hundred students would still be living in converted rooms. But if the University decides to close Claverly, restrict off-campus living, or increase the size of the class, even less deconversion would be possible...