Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting around the parietal rules simply depended on the dorm. "In Comstock people who arrived five minutes after they signed out for would have the dorm president tapping her foot waiting," Molony says. But in her dorm--Bertram--rules were much looser. In fact, Molony says her freshman roommate moved in with her boyfriend in Dunster House just after Thanksgiving, and no one seemed to notice...
Even in the late '60s, Radcliffe encouraged women to wear skirts to class and around the city. Molony says as a freshman, she was told to wear a skirt in the Cambridge Common and warned that the common could be dangerous after dark. But, she says, "My average skirt was 13 inches long." However, only the weekly formal dinners at Radcliffe actually required her to dress...
...Freshman football 28, Brown...
Women applicants to the Class of '79--the last to enter under dual, non-equal access system--numbered 3382. Applications from women jumped to 3696 the following year and reached a record 4901 to the current freshman class. The number of female applicants from the Class of '79 rose 45 per cent between the class of '79 and the class of '83, while for male applicants the increase measured only seven per cent...
...female applicant pool also became more economically diverse. Nearly 25 per cent of women in the Class of '79 qualified for financial aid, compared to 42.3 per cent in this year's freshman class. By contrast, 41.7 per cent of the current freshman class qualified for aid, making the class of '83 the first in which the percentage of women qualifying for assistance surpasses that...