Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issues in the joint examination controversy have become needlessly complicated in the past few weeks by half-baked words and actions in various places of authority on both sides of the Common. Radcliffe's administration is trying to pawn the whole thing off as a question of procedural simplification, and has plowed ahead despite the over-whelming opposition from the student body. Provest Buck has declared it a question to be decided by the undergraduates, and the Student Council has acted on this theory by approving the program for Harvard without so much as an informal student poll...
...same is not true of the girls. Not only would joint exams upset them emotionally (they claim), but they would mean a practical end to their honor system, a highly prized privilege at the Annex. Against this, the administration puts the argument that exams with Harvard are no noisier than separate tests where the girls can come and go unwatched. They also claim that joint exams give Radcliffe a chance to ask professors questions...
Cynthia Sweeney '50 will sing the soprano solo in the Harvard Glee Club Radcliffe Choral Society joint presentation of Handel's "Messiah' 'in Sanders Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday...
Results of the poll will be tabulated by class this week and will be incorporated in the student report on joint examinations now being compiled by Joan Braverman '50 and an undergraduate committee. The report will be submitted to President W. K. Jordan on December 3 and he will hand it on to University and Radcliffe officials...
Loss of the five-year-old honor system in exams was the chief reason for balloting against joint finals," Miss Projansky said. One voter wrote on her questionnaire. "Joint exams would take away the most concrete aspects of the honor system, and leave us only the theory...