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When the 107 returning members of the Radcliffe Class of 1954 arrive at Comstock Hall Wednesday afternoon to embark upon three days of receptions, luncheons, colloquia, special exhibits and performances in honor of the Radcliffe Centennial, they'll find significant changes in their alma mater. Back in the early '50s, Radcliffe was an institution seeminly independent of Harvard, sharing only course instruction, an economy measure forced by war-time pressures. Radcliffe women lived in the dormitories at the Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned...
...would like to publicly thank the Radcliffe Union of Students for their wonderful idea of having a women-only dining hall in Holmes on Monday night. This gave me the much-needed opportunity to spit and swear and tell bawdy jokes with "the guys" over in Comstock dining hall without having to worry about offending those "pretty young things" over in Holmes...
...today's meeting to discuss a proposal to phase out the mandatory term bill fee that finances the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) will face serious opposition from Susan L. Comstock '78, RUS president...
...Comstock said last week "it would probably be difficult for RUS to solicit funding from other sources" should the proposal be implemented...
...orations begin with straight history: Radcliffe was founded in such-and-such year, by so-and-so, in some building in Radcliffe Yard, and grew in the following three easy steps, etc. Above our heads slides of Anne Radcliffe and Ada Louise Comstock mingle with shots of women in long dresses in libraries and dining halls. Interspersed among these historical slides are contemporary scenes of Radcliffe and Cambridge...