Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Education led the way, but extracurricular activities and social activities soon followed. In the last few years Harvard and Radcliffe groups have been moving closer together: probably a majority of Harvard extracurricular groups now have more 01' less complete bonds with their Rad- cliffe opposite numbers. Even more striking, though more dimcult to document, is the change in the Harvard attitude toward Radcliffe girls as dates. Seniors can remember the attitude, just beginning to die out as they entered college, that Radcliffe women were at best, human, and that a man who wanted a date had to travel in a direc- tion other than low'ard Radcliffe. Most of that has passed now, though; the Radcliffe girl, by virtue of hard work and the assistance of the el Id-lerb.m- h. 7 w - -' -' Admissions Office, has met her stiffest competition well and has joined the lists of the normal. So much has contiguity in the classrooms done. And not only classrooms. Another, and still growing point of contact is the main LcReadingt, Room of Widener. House plays were as amateur, as popular, and as doggedly vulgar as ever. Housemaster Perkins of Lowell lit the annual Yule log with the annual gasoline, and Superintendent Yule led the annual musical parade through the Kirkland House Christmas Dinner. The only variation was in Eliot House whose play was attended for the flrst time in seventeen years by womenefour Radcliffe seniors tighly laced and dressed in grey Hannels. Reading Period and exams were pretty much as u -.

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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.

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What some guys wouldnht do to get to Wellesley . . . usual, too. WHRB, which had celebrated its tenth birthday in December, served up another of its mighty musical orgies, working its way method- ically through a record collection from Bach t0 the lesser hillbillies. The Young Republican Club, long dormant, found itself in a new scandal hwhich was not unusuaU during Reading Period Which was a new time for HYRC scandalsL With elec- tions coming up, a member of the clique in power lured a leading member of the opposition into his chambers for a chat and recorded his conver- sation, which was said to be politically unsavory, on a wire recorder concealed under a pile of dirty laundry. Eventually, after a stormy meeting three members of the opposition were expelled from the