Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's chaperonage rules are also in line with the Radcliffe concept of few regulations and great freedom. Three simple statements, buried on a little-perused page of the Student Handbook, require students to refrain from visiting a man's apartment without another girl, to procure the chaperonage of an older couple for a private party after 1 a.m., and to observe the parietal rules of men's dormitories. Whether or not these honor-system rules are actually obeyed seems to be a matter for dispute. Deans and students are disinclined to change them, however, claiming that the rules function...
...College rules and principles. 'Cliffies were quick to realize that they had much to gain from Administrative trust. "Great responsibilities have been entrusted to us, and, of course, we always try to show that we are capable of meeting even more," one practical 'Cliffie wrote in the 1925 Student Handbook...
According to the 1958-59 Student Handbook, "the effectiveness of the honor system is dependent not only upon each student's observance of the rules of the College, but also upon her willingness to share in creating that public opinion necessary for its success. All Radcliffe students are expected to assume full responsibility for adult behavior." In effect, the honor system may be divided into a spirit of honor and a system of permissions. The spirit is an ideal of conduct which has characterized the College for many years, producing a special sort of maturity in the Radcliffe student...
...major contribution of Potter's new handbook is the appearance of a bearded character known only as The Lawrenceman. It was never certain that he had ever actually read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use of them. There was, for instance, the occasion when a tweedy iconoclast named Cornelius Sticking loudly criticized a county family for putting on their best clothes to go to church on Sundays. The Lawrenceman merely looked out over his beard and asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed...
...delighted that the Handbook has made use of our publication and brought its formal information to a wider readership. But most of all, we are grateful that the committee has decided not to take action against us for plagiarism. Edward M. White Editor, Harvard-Radcliffe Student Bulletin David Adler Treasurer, Graduate Student Council