Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bowl of alphabet soup. The Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC), Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC), Students Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), and Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which still lingers, formed the new student bureaucracy. Ten years ago, the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty--formed after a Paine Hall sit-in protesting Faculty unresponsiveness to students' needs--established the familiar Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and Committee on Undergraduate Education...
Despite Faculty fuzziness on the subject, Faculty minutes and newspaper reports in the 1969-'70 academic year show that the merger did reach the floor of University Hall's faculty room...
Diana Trilling '25 came to Cambridge to view first-hand the effects of co-residency. With her husband Lionel she moved into Briggs Hall in the spring of 1971. Three essays on the visit appear in the collection, We Must March My Darlings, published in 1977. Mrs. Trilling discussed her visit in a recent interview...
...students knew how to behave. The 54 women of Briggs Hall dined together at specific hours, recited grace before meals, and were served by maids in uniform. Although North House could not be called a sorority, Trilling says, "we knew everyone. Everyone, in the very least, was interesting. We all had something to say to one another. And no one was lonely outside of the usual adolescent schmerz...
...inferno had ever erupted in a Quad dorm in the '60s, Radcliffe women were supposed to know what to save first: the "body book," the dreaded ledger in the front hall where undergraduates had to sign out and in. By saving that record, the dean of residence could tell who had safely escaped the burning building...