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...morning visitors will attend classes and tour the three newest dormitories--Moors, Holmes, and Comstock...
Much of the rest of the discussion was devoted to the recent affiliation of two Houses with Radcliffe Halls. Owen, whose Winthrop House has associated with Comstock Hall, emphasized that mixed tutorial leads to livelier sessions. Here he clashed with Perkins ("The place for women is in the home, but, with one exception, it is not my home."), who underlined the disadvantages of involving more people in the already over-crowded House system...
...deans and students alike, has developed cyclically over a half century. During the general unrest of the nineteen-twenties, Radcliffe girls were bound by a social system of comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that caused apprehension among members of the Administration. Ada L. Comstock, then President of the Annex, voiced the opinion, "You never take a step back--once you go forward, you never retreat." But she was at least partly mistaken, for the amending of senior privilege in the forties reversed the trend by lessening social freedom. As for the library honor system...
Second Marshal will be Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Third Marshal, Nancy L. Proger '59, of comstock Hall and Brookline; Fourth Marshal, Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; and Fifth Marshal, Jean L. Anderson '59, of Whitman Hall and Wethersfield, Conn...
...room and board payments. The College's over-all policy is to "break even in the long run," which necessitates adjustments in room and board charges. ROOM AND BOARD SCHEDULE Present Fall 1959 Single rooms available in all halls $1,080 $1,130 Planned double rooms (available in Bertram, Comstock, Holmes and Moors Halls) 1,000 1,045 Economy double rooms (available in all Halls) 890 930 Cooperative houses (board not included...