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Whoever directs, Peter Hall will rule. He may command through persuasive fluency and crisp decision, but he must also woo the paying customers and the satraps of subsidy. At least 80% of the 2,450 seats must be filled or the prevailing ratio of $2 in government subsidy for every $2 in theater receipts will go perilously awry. There has been quite audible grumbling about the $30 million that has already gone into what one sour critic has labeled "the concrete Xanadu on the South Bank." Hall has astutely muted such criticism by occupying the premises, and the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A New Treasure on the Thames | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

Kilbridge's cost-consciousness, Business School origins, and pride in the decrease in the school's student-faculty ratio have generated resentment on top of the already complex set of internal divisions...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Kilbridge Won't Go Away | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

Sure, if you like guys dancing with other guys. Only the Quad has a one-to-one ratio. For examples of the social life, North runs a weekly happy hour with cocktails and live music, while South runs at least 2 dances every three weeks, with free beer and an open cocktail bar. These are just the scheduled parties...The living rooms can be used by anybody who's throwing his own party, whether a private one or open to the house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUAD | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...lived at the River I would probably not have found that out. You can still socialize at the Square if you live hzre, but you have a retreat from the noise, the crowding, and the city when you want it... I also enjoy the more life-like sex ratio. After all, the real world is much closer to 1:1 than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUAD | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

CHUL has ruled that no more than 60% of the sophmores at the Quad next year can be men. So the overall male-female ratio will be at least as even as 8:7. There's only one place as Harvard with that kind of ratio--the Quad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUAD | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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