Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mather House that ended the discussion. Lou had fought in World War II, and even if his side lost he still had a good eye for bunkers and pillboxes. The concrete flanks of firebase Mather looked painfully familiar, especially for the kind of money he was shelling out for the kid. Not a bell tower...
...Harvard is not thriving. Two film societies, Gund Hall and Currier House, have stopped showing movies during the last year. Others have cut back their schedules or show most of their films exclusively to House members. The film societies which have made substantial profits this year--Leverett, Quincy, Mather and, more marginally, Adams--have survived only by showing commercial films which draw a substantial audience and subsidize their less popular but often more artistic films...
...film society wants to show a prohibited film, its president must contact the managers of Cambridge theaters to ask permission. Sometimes that permission is easily granted, but other times (as when Harold Izkowitz '78, Mather Film Society president, asked the Brattle if he could show a Bogart film) the plea is rejected...
...nights when choice rooms are gone, film societies generally plan less ambitious programs, as they all have had trouble drawing audiences to their smaller, and less convenient, dining halls. The location can make or break the night; of the River Houses, Dunster and Mather have had the most trouble getting people because of their sentinel positions at the campus edge. Showing movies at the Quad has become taboo. Brown summed up the problem there quickly: "People at the River stay at the River on weekends, and people at the Quad go out to the River on weekends...
...couple of the film societies have complained that they have members who could show the film better than the projectionists they must hire. While most of them are well-trained, Dunster House used one who broke a film, left time between reels, and cut the sound for several minues; Mather House used a projectionist who left for a six-pack in the middle of a reel. But at least one society president feels grateful he doesn't have to run the projectors. "Those things are dangerous," Rick Hunt '78 of Adams House said. "They sputter and throw sparks...