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Radcliffe writers and photographers will be offered special opportunities for journalistic experience, and exclusive beats with the only newspaper giving daily Annex coverage...
...them to be Cliffdwellers. A survey of the crowd would probably reveal that there are equally as many, if not more, Wellesley girls present. All the girls will look approximately the same--their best. Yet underneath this? female facade, there are some basic difference between the average Annex girl and her Wellesley counterpart...
...Annex girls, as a rule, rarely go to another college for a weekend. For the most part, they are content to stay at Harvard and cheer for the College football team, unless they are in a particularly foul humor or madly in love with some Yale student. Anyway, as one girl said, the average Cliffdweller is basically much too lazy to pack up and take off for a whole weekend. The so-called unfeminine aspects of Radcliffe girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time...
...girl typed Radcliffe students as "one-sided geniuses," while another put it more kindly, claiming they are "extreme individualists." In either case, it seems clear that although Wellesley girls might consider Harvard as the hypotenuse and Radcliffe as the other side of the triangle, they do not think that Annex girls are like them. The feeling is mutual. Such epithets as "glorified girl scouts" and typical all-around girls--"healthy, outdoorsy, and clean," have been applied by Radcliffe to Wellesley...
...they do, too. But the Harvardman has not yet lost the last vestiges of his independence. He can still decide for himself whether he prefers the urbanized sophistication of Radcliffe or the simple, rural charms of Wellesley. A decision should not be based on the convenience of the Annex, either. As one Wellesley girl pointed out, "We're used to riding the trolleys with Harvardmen...