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...governing boards of the two schools made the University faculty double as the faculty of Radcliffe College. At first, joint instruction was confined to upper-level courses only, with freshmen still meeting separately. This distinction--Jordan calls it an arbitrary one--broke down almost immediately, and by 1946, Annex students were admitted to almost all Harvard courses. The last barriers were swept away this fall...
...take a personal responsibility for everything that happens within its walls. Wilbur K. Jordan has been president of Radcliffe for exactly ten years and the eventful progress of the whole decade is mirrored in the man and his actions. In these years, one theme has dominated all others: the Annex should give a woman exactly the same education that Harvard gives...
Harvard faculty members have taught at Radcliffe since the school's infancy in 1879--thus the familiar term Annex. But each Harvard professor who taught at Radcliffe was under separate contract. Jordan, an instructor in History at Harvard from 1931 to 1937, was among that group. "You would lecture to Harvard at nine and then spring breathlessly across the Common to Long fellow to deliver the same lecture at ten," he says, "and you heard your same jokes fall flat a second time...
Allowing Harvard proctors to supervise joint examinations is the only concession the Annex has made to the University in disciplinary problems. But the Harvard proctor technically has only the rights of a Radcliffe girl in such cases. Under the honor system, every girl is supposed to report herself or anyone else she see for any violation of the regulations. These reports are made to the president of the 'Cliffe Student Government, not to the deans...
...infancy, the proctors were considered only "mechanical aids" who would pass out blue books and record the passage of time. They had no disciplinary powers. But a special action by the Student Government made the proctors in both mixed and all-Radcliffe exams the equivalents of Annex undergraduates for the duration of the test...