Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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CliHedwellers were big hit in Smoker campaign. and the Radcliffe Press Board for writing two stories Wlot in the best interests of Radcliffe? One story had been a rumor that President Jordan had proposed a Great Issues course Hike the one at Dartmoutht for Radcliffe. Jordan was ill and could not be reached for comment, but the Crim- son ran the story anyway, and it later turned out to have been Wrong. The other story was sent into the Boston Herald without prior permission of the Publicity OfIice. The issue between the Radcliffe Administration and the Crimson was this: to whom was the reporter responsible? The Crime said uonly t0 the newspaper she servesn; Radcliffe said g111m of all to her college whose S$?.- Sally Randts performance at the Smoker was totally unbareable.

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comment his proposed set of rules, based in large part on the Council proposals of late last spring. The Council balked and sent back a list of some dozen recommended changes, which in every case would have made the rules more liberal. Watson received these proposals in late December; at the end of January he issued a little printed booklet, Rules for Undergraduate Organizations. Neither he nor the Faculty Commlttee on Undergraduate Activities had accepted any of the Council,s pro- posed changes, nor had he thought it would be fruitful to carry the discussions much further at this time. The undergraduate groups now had their rules. The newly-elected Council debated the subject and decided to drop the objections to all but two or three of the rules. Then the case was closed. It was just as well, though the Deans, Oche action had been unnecessarily abrupt; the struggle between liberal and restrictive principles, in the places where it had not been resolved, had reached a stalemate. Radcliffe ordered one of the Crimsorfs Annex correspond- ents, Deborah Labenow ,51, to quit the paper The other clash was much brisket.

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Nelson of Radcliffe Uefo and Wilder of Yale UighD made Harvard fall show a success. name she may damage by irresponsible reportinap The two fought their duel in the pages of many Eastern Seaboard newspapers, and there is little doubt that the Crimson won the battle of publicity, while Radcliffe won in forcing Miss Labenowk retirement. It was an interesting case because it was the Iirst trouble the Crimsom, had had with the 7C1iffe oHicialdom since the paper had begun to cover RadcliHe more completely several years ago. Whether it had any significance for the future could not be said, but the fact that the dispute had occurred at all was an indication of how' much the Crimson had become a part of Radcliffe. This, in turn, was only a smaller part of the in- creasing connection between the two colleges. The trend was started by Joint Instruction, which has itself been getting jointer these last few- years, un- til now only a handful of freshman courses are separated. Nealest trick of the season.