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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe Student Government is sponsoring the new Field House function on an experimental basis. The Field House will continue to be open for study dates week nights from...
...meting from Monday night. The change of meeting day would also benefit the individual Committee members since they would be able to attend Council meetings when the agenda was of interest to them. The Council has many faults and limitations, but if it is to serve any useful function, its members must be made more responsible to those they represent...
...which the racial sensitvity was sharper than the wits. For if there are some "passages derogatory to Negroes" (largely because the vernacular used has since changed in shade of meaning) the total drama shows the dignity and worth of "nigger Jim." Indeed, Huck's own moral growth is a function of his affection and respect for Jim. Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance, but love. That the process is slow and painful and that it takes place in a still-enslaved South provide a realism which enhances the educational value of the book...
House masters expressed enthusiasm over the increase. Reuben A. Brower, master of Adams, claimed that "this, more than any other thing since Mr. Lowell, has permitted the Houses to perform their educational function. Before the two grants were made," Brower commented, "we all had the will, but not the means...
Plans for undergraduate participation in the dinners are still being formulated. As yet, only one student has been chosen to speak at a Program function. He is Rollin S. Burhans, Jr. '59, of Dunster House, who will speak in Louisville with Bullitt...