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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mather is blessed with high ceilings, a wall of windows, large chairs and generous aisles between tables, and large chairs. An illusion of a massive space is created, spacious and light filled. Big people in DHA sweats fit in inconspicuously and look virtually regular size, their bulk reduced to normalcy in the amply sized room. The architecture was to scale with the fast disappearing old guard of Mather athletes. Meanwhile, the new Matherites, an assorted bunch of sensitive artist/musicians, literally rattle around in the big room...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: NOT FITTING TO SCALE | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

Observe-Adams, tables close together demanding a smaller clientele, e.g. pale VES concentrators; Kirkland, the smaller size tables and spacious layout comfortably fitting athletic teams. So as the randomization computer switches on, beware of houses where students just plain...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: NOT FITTING TO SCALE | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

Local churches have been in the spotlight a good deal lately--from the protests of the size of the Knafel Center project by the parishioners at the Swedenborg Chapel to some students' irritation with the frequent peals of the new bells of St. Paul's Church. It's a question in the first case of not enough light and in the second of too much noise. As far as the bells go, I can't say that my heart goes out too much to those bothered by the chimes. We students have become experts at tuning out what...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Reaching Out | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...that two-thirds of those in the class received As would then wrongly discredit those grades. The only good that might come out of this proposal is that Harvard might be grossly embarrassed in printing three-figure enrollment figures on hundreds of transcripts; this could do more for class size than 10 years of U.S. News and World Report rankings...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Let It Bleed | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...sent several postings to the local newsgroups, harvard.marketplace and mit.bboard, but then I remembered that I had no money. So then I sent pleas to those lists asking for donations of a hard drive of any size, so I could at least install MS-DOS. Funny, no one replied to that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Computers Can Be Had For Free | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

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