Word: collier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, if you ask Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College and Harvard's statistical whiz-kid, how he determines the number of people to crowd in each House, chances are you won't be satisfied with his answer, assuming, that is, that you can understand...
Actually, for those people who contend that their House "really is the most overcrowded," what is even harder than understanding Collier's mathematics is being able to see through them and argue against them...
Many irate students during the past week have wandered into Collier's office in the basement of University Hall convinced that their Houses are drastically more over-crowded than any other. Collier said those students usually leave his office persuaded that crowding is just as bad, if not worse, in the other Houses...
...several of his visitors have left with the impression that Collier is snowing them under with statistics, formulas, pain indices, ideal capacities, crowding quotients and everything else he uses to prove that crowding is equally distributed among all the Houses...
...workings of one extremely complex family, and not only to recount the fortunes of that family. Beyond that, seeing the family's story as the story of big capitalism in America, it seeks to tell that story too. A task that ambitious is practically impossible to carry out, and Collier and Horowitz are weakest at drawing all the necessary connections such a complicated scheme entails...