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...possibilities. First, Mather House's current purpose is to relieve overcrowding in other Harvard Houses. Although it is questionable that 100 juniors will want to leave their present Houses to move to Mather this winter, by next fall when new sophomores enter the Houses and the Mather tower opens, general overcrowding at Harvard should be eased considerably. Radcliffe, however, would not have relief for their overcrowding, even with the opening of Currier House next fall, since the South House dorms will be closed for renovations. A second major logistics problem might come from the mass transfer of Cliffies to Mather...
These were the main arguments being discussed following the Mather House meeting. Two things were necessary for either of the coed proposals to succed. One was a general agreement on the desirability of coed living. The second was an organized group to urge action on the proposals. But both of these were missing in the presentation of the student plans for coed living at Mather; their absence led to the death of the proposals...
Death came swiftly. A group of Mather sophomores interested in the coed living discussion at the first meeting in October met again early in November with Master von Stade. The students had not met in the interim and came prepared with nothing more than a favorable inclination towards the general concept of coed living. Master von Stade came with the announced intention of not allowing Mather House to go coed this year. Nothing nearly as harsh as a confrontation ensued. Master von Stade denied that anvone knew if the majority of students wanted coed housing, added a few statistical...
Nevertheless, the general circumstances of the OBU demonstrations distinguish them in fact, and perhaps in principle, from the SDS demonstration...
...Committee did not, however, say that "an obstructive demonstration. . . apart from the element of force or violence," was necessarily equally intolerable; its report says only that such a demonstration "can substantially impede the work of members of the University and contribute to a general atmosphere of intimidation...