Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walking by the Winthrop Dining Hall on our way to Mather, we spy people, cards and poker chips through the windows. Though it's not listed on our official itinerary, we smell a party. Matt, John, Jose and Jeff gather every Friday night around 9 p.m. to play poker in the Winthrop House Dining Hall. Soft drinks flow non-stop from the Winthrop beverage machines...
...tomorrow, and there are five parties left to go. We are in total confusion over where to go next. HRO? Mather? The Quad? DeWolfe...
...then there's Washington's Metro, a disgustingly clean and predictable subway. There, faux-Roman arches make every station into a cavernous Pantheon. Which would be fine, had the Romans built with concrete, but they knew better. Washington's Metro is the Mather House of subways--simultaneously large, impressive, cold and ugly. All the same, it has redeeming features--like the Sonny Rollins look- and sound-alike who plays atop Farragut North or the longest escalator outside of Russia at Wheaton. But these amenities do little to compensate for its reigning hobgoblin, a gray-grim consistency...
...Over 300 House residents signed the Mather House Creed, which stresses inclusiveness and the need for compassion and unity in the house community and is now posted in the house's dining hall...
...Mather students and staff went to great lengths to make a strong statement about what constitutes acceptable behavior in our community," Kyriell added. "To be honest, I think we all thought it was over...