Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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And so the topic returns to style. If economic necessity brought on the merger, it did not give Radcliffe an excuse for self-congratulations. If combined housing became necessary in 1970, the change could not defend a loss of civility. What matters is not life's changes but the way...
If an 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...
Signing in and out was one of several restrictions on the Radcliffe woman in the last decade; the College expected her to observe ladylike decorum in her urban environs: wearing dresses and using escorts in Cambridge Common, returning home at a reasonable hour and formally notifying--with evidence of parental...
The Radcliffe deans' position in loco parentis justified their monitoring of student activities. By 1969, only freshmen had to sign the ledgers, and then only until Thanksgiving, but they had to sign out anywhere they went after dinner, even if the distance was no greater than the 100 yards between...
Nevertheless, Harvard appeared much stricter than Radcliffe about keeping the sexes apart. Lamont Library did not open to women until 1968, much to the surprise of the first Radcliffe student to enter officially, who said she had often been there before. Harvard required its students to escort Radcliffe women home...