Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World. The Virginia Company arrived on an expedition partly financed by a lottery. Colonists used the gaming wheel to help build bridges, churches and schools (including Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth). The Puritans condemned gambling with passion because, among other reasons, it meant usurping God's role. Cotton Mather warned that the Scriptures intended lots to be "used only in weighty cases and as an acknowledgement of God sitting in judgment" and not as "the tools of our common sports...
...issue in question is of major importance to the College. If about 200 ...students, as now, continue to live off-campus, then the opening of Mather House in the Fall, 1969 would permit deconversion of most House suites...
...because Mather House will add about $150,000 to the annual budget of the Houses, that decision would also require some increase in room rents...
...campus is restricted only to special cases, such as married students, returned veterans, and students with health problems, then the running costs of Mather would be made up in additional rents and there would be no deconversion...
Finally, Harvard could simply expand its classes to fill Mather House and thus rule out both deconversion and an end to off-campus living...