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Julian T. Baird, Summer School dean of men, brings up a number of objections to the liberalization of Summer School social rules. To begin with there are practical reasons: not being able to supervise parietal hours because of an inadequate staff and the absence of bell desks. Baird also hints that any liberalization would bring complaints from angry mothers who want to be sure that their offspring are safe from the temptations of college life and can be reached at a moment's notice...
...other-arguments Baird advances are some-what more subtle and interesting. During the year, Harvard and Radcliffe students have enough time to "learn the ropes" and develop a sense of continuity. During the summer, girls do not have this sense of continuity and probably don't feel the restraints from "peer group sanctions" either. The result of a liberal policy would be that a group of relatively sheltered girls would arrive at Harvard and be unleashed. They wouldn't know how to use this freedom properly, Baird adds...
...Baird points to the School's admissions system as the crucial factor in a debate as to how liberal social rules could be. "Harvard has a very strict selection system, and we know what kind of people we have here and what to expect from them," Baird says. The girls here during the summer are apt to be less responsible with their freedom than Radcliffe girls, he explains...
...PUPPET by Bil Baird. 251 pages. Macmillan. $17-50. Puppeteer Bil Baird's book is not a history but an appreciation of the theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who watched their antics in the 17th century. Punch's ancestor, a hook-nosed Turkish bully named Karaghioz, preceded him by several centuries. The special exaggerated magic of the marionette, which lives only in the minds of its spectators and often requires three human puppeteers to give it movement, is affectionately evoked...
...Library's riverfront neighbors--Harvard's Georgian Houses, the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, and a line of six-story brick apartments--are friendlier. But just outside the yards' northwest corner, Baird Atomic Inc. has a block of three brick manufacturing buildings: another visual headache...