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...Finally, Baird asserts, the Summer School doesn't want to become involved with "legislating morals." We have to "play Radcliffe during the summer and we're not at all used to it," he admits. "It's just easier this way, and any reform of the rules would involve a number of problems we don't want to get involved...
...Baird's objections are obviously condescending toward the student who comes here during the summer, and although the "I go here during the winter" buttons show that this snobbism it is not entirely absent among the Harvard students themselves, the Faculty cannot afford to have this outlook if it is to make any significant contribution to these girls' educations...
...Baird admits that the Harvard Summer School's philosophy is "fairly conservative." But condescension is a greater sin than conservation. Ten years ago the summer session was more like a country club than a school, Baird said, pointing out the dangers of social freedom. "We used to go around offering section men salaries to teach during the summer," he says. The teaching standards have been improving rapidly since then, he claims, and academics are the primary concern...
...Baird simply saying that we can't continue Radcliffe's liberal policies at the Summer School because the girls aren't made of the same stuff as 'Cliffies? Isn't he simply saying that the effort to give summer girls a sense of responsibility is just "too far to walk...
...Baird's objections boil down to a conservative philosophy for the Summer School, or are they simply a matter of administrative expediency? The Administration would do well to re-think its position, hopefully with an experimental attitude, and ask itself if Radcliffe rules are really too demanding for the Summer School student...