Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Morgenthau III, president of the Friends of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said the Hillel Society is in "kind of a crisis situation." He called its current home at 1 Bryant Street "decrepit and overcrowded" and said the new building is in need of extensive renovation.
On the flip side, Spence will require a House to accept transfers only when the current House population falls below the 87 per cent floor. Thus Mather, with its ten per cent attrition rate, need not accept any one-way transfers this fall. A master might decide to accept transfers...
Nor will the transfer limit prevent extremes in under- and over-crowding. Mather House lost ten per cent of its assigned population to attrition--more than the eight per cent level Spence assumed it would lose. Yet 31 suites in Mather remain overcrowded.
Part of the reason for this mismanagement is simple: a strong, conscientious administration often runs counter to the school committee's interests. William J. Leary served as superintendent from 1972 to 1975, at the beginning of the busing crisis. Leary said last week he feels the school committee originally gave...
The Houses which are presently the most overcrowded are Kirkland, Eliot and Winthrop, and students who apply for individual transfers will have a better chance of success, Spence said.