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...Radcliffe Student Government and the Administration produced possibly the most ridiculous set of rules ever issued at the Annex, with a list of 13 designations of activity, each requiring a specific sign-in time. Certainly "winter automobiling" from which a girl had to return by 7:30 p.m., was not overly popular, but sleigh-riders could stay out until 12:30. Protests against the system were effective, for the next year found the sign-out regulations greatly simplified. The rules at last began to resemble those of Radcliffe today, with sophomores, juniors, and seniors permitted unlimited twelve o'clocks...
Originally, the Annex had visions of a completely "free" library, with reserve books left on open shelves and students left on their honor to use these books briefly and in specified places. However, as is frequently true, the 'Cliffie soon discovered that what works well in theory fails in practice. Reserve books disappeared at an alarming rate, and students and faculty complained. The library then instituted an open-reserve system for reference and source books not currently in great demand and a rotating closed-reserve system for books in daily...
...recent years, application of the honor system to academic life has stirred up considerable controversy among Radcliffe students and faculty members. Examinations have never been strictly proctored at the Annex, even in the days when 'Cliffies took all exams in Longfellow Hall under Harvard regulations. Nevertheless, students in the early forties campaigned for the right to apply the honor system to final exams. When Dean Mildred P. Sherman proposed the idea to University Provost Paul Buck, he told her it would never work at Harvard, but to "go ahead and try it" at Radcliffe. The Annex went ahead...
...each other. This provision, however, remained so universally disliked and disregarded that last fall Student Government Association followed the course of least resistance and abolished it. "Rightly or wrongly, the code not to inform is deeply ingrained in all of you," Dean Kathleen O. Elliott commented. In general, Annex undergraduates supported the paradoxical position that social pressure actually works more, rather than less effectively when students are not forced to report one another...
...unprecedented demand for student loans, she explained, had depleted all available funds at the Annex before the grant arrived in February. Attributing the growing demand to a new attitude among 'Cliffies that "intelligent borrowing is not a disgrace," the Dean added that "in the past they preferred taking on extra work...