Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to her Harvard counterpart, the Radcliffe girl cannot wander out of her dorm when she feels like it. To stay out of the dorm later than 10 p.m., when the doors lock, the Cliffe-dweller must register in the sign-book for all to see. Unlike some women's colleges, at Radcliffe a girl does not have to sign the name of her date, but only her destination, with as little specificity as "Boston movies," "Square," or "Corner...
Signing in and out of the dorm is done on the honor system, with each girl owning a key to the front door. Warnings are issued for tardiness up to 15 minutes, and later violations are punished by "social pro." This means that the offender must endure one Saturday night of staying in the dorm...
Although the Radcliffe dorms are very different from the Houses in most respects, they have tended to be "typed" in a somewhat similar fashion. Radcliffe girls, for example, may think of one dorm as embodying "gracious living," and others as populated by socialites, or by girls bent on little gold bands, or on little gold keys, as the case...
...more difficult, however, to type the residents of each dorm at Radcliffe than of each Harvard House, chiefly because of the mobility of residence from year to year. Freshmen are original assigned to dorms with the intention of creating a typical cross-section rather than a characteristic atmosphere, but they are allowed to change dorms in succeeding years...
More fruitful than typing the individuals in a dorm is trying to dicern an atmosphere characteristic of the hall. Dictinctions arise from variation in the facilities, in the staff and in the personality of the house mother--how willingly she gives late permissions, how stringently she enfroces the rules, how well she is acquainted with the individual girls...