Jean paul carlhian biography template
Summary.
Jean Paul Carlhian age 92 of Concord passed away on Thursday, October 18, at his residence..
Slouching Towards Mather House
Of all the undergraduate Houses, Mather House is perhaps the most distinctive. Big, bold, and Brutalist, its signature nineteen-story monolith towers over the Charles from the corner of Cowperthwaite and Banks.
Below, the Mather low-rise, squat and mechanical, encircles a quadrangle with trees and benches.
To many, Mather is known for its blocky appearance; some students even call it “the box that Dunster came in.” Mather does not immediately evoke the images of a classic Harvard that Eliot or Adams might.
Instead, Mather points to a different Harvard era: the s.
The decade was witness to a sharp overcrowding crisis among Harvard’s undergraduate Houses. The crisis reached a peak in the late s, exacerbated by increased enrollment and an unwillingness of students to take leaves of absence, which would make them draft-eligible for the Vietnam War.
Construction Woes
Harvard’s plan for the construction of Mather House was in many regards ambitious, b