Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking breakfast-eaters in Mather and Dunster Houses to eat in Leverett, the University can save money by keeping those Houses' kitchen closed, since Leverett is serviced by the central kitchen, which must remain open anyway...
Opposition to the plan grew over the week, as the Mather House Council voted to ask Fox to reconsider his decision and David and Patricia Herlihy, master land co-master of Mather, said they will write a letter to Fox asking him to reconsider his decision to limit breakfast service...
...response to student requests, David and Patricia Herlihy, masters of Mather House, will submit a letter to Fox next week asking that either Mather or Dunster be made one of the Houses to offer a full breakfast, Patricia Herlihy said yesterday...
...Mather, like certain other Houses, simply does not have the redeeming features for which the school gives it credit. If the laws of supply and demand held in establishing rents in the Houses, a room in Lowell or Adams would be worth much more. It seems absurd that the University can expect to supply its tenants with so little and still charge a considerable amount for room and board...
...company which reduced workers' benefits would be crushed in whimpering impotence by the unions. Yet Harvard gives its students inadequate value for their money and expects compliance with the fixed price. The argument may seem impudent but the matter comes down to be essentially one of financial injustice. Mather has no squash courts; it is a long walk from the Square; its rooms are uncomfortably small; its charm is limited if not nonexistent. Now it serves no decent breakfast. Separate it is. Equal it is not. I would appreciate some form of redress. Marc A. Rosenblatt...