Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news. Four Harvard students will perform on Sunday, Feb. 19, at 4:15 p.m. in the Mather House dining room Claude Bolling's "Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano...
When you're writing a thesis, you become a mindless shut-in, a recluse, a pariah. Your only contact with the outside world is whatever wafts in on the breeze through the sixth-floor windows in Mather House (last week, that meant 30 inches of snow, and I had quite a cleanup problem) and, needless to say, the radio. Well I've now closed my window until the winter is officially over, and I've given up on the radio. (Last night, WBCN, the one station you're still supposed to think is OK around here, devoted an entire hour...
Maintaining an orderly home life in a Harvard House is a challenge, says Linda Orf, wife of Mather House senior tutor Harry Orf. "Trying to keep a routine is something you have to work for. You're more open to disruptions," she says. But in spite of frequent visits by students and faculty and the academic and social demands of House life, the Orfs usually find time to be alone with their 11-month-old son Darren. Like other parents, they reserve certain hours each day--usually early mornings and evenings before their children's bedtime--during which they give...
Linda Orf has fulfilled her desire to work while managing to care for Darren. After lunch on weekdays the two of them go to the Mather House office where she works as an administrative assistant while he plays nearby until his afternoon nap. The arrangement works because, she says, "Darren is as comfortable alone as he is with other people," and since he is not yet walking, he cannot move out of her sight. Darren meets many students during his hours in the office, and he is beginning to recognize and "talk" to some of them. "Maybe that...
...telephone interview, the team manager said although the squad could not make the trip, some of the more dedicated players were shooting baskets at the Mather courts. Charlie Baker, who has seen limited action at forward so far this season, organized the snowy practice session, the manager said...