Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 40 Harvard undergraduates live in the Harvard Co-operatives, located off Massachusetts Avenue near Radcliffe, while their Radcliffe counterparts, the Jordan Halls, house about 60 Radcliffe students. Their meals are organized independently of the University dining halls, which will introduce a trial period of Harvard-Radcliffe interhouse beginning February...
When the system was first introduced, Spits said, the Cliffies were reluctant to come to meals without an escort. Within the last year, however, more girls, especially those from Jordan J, have begun to drop in for dinner...
...Jordan girls have also seemed to enjoy the presence of the Harvard students in their dining halls. For many girls the informality of the system has allowed them to get to know boys in a way not possible on formal dates...
Catherine Fitch '65, president of Jordan J. said last night that eating meals with boys on a casual basis provides an opportunity for a wide range of relationships. These are good, she said, because they are neither superficial nor very intense. "After all, the main purpose here is to eat dinner. You don't commit yourself to anything by asking someone to pass the peas...
...Dung Heap. Negro teen-agers live in a world apart. "Culturally deprived, culturally deprived! That's all I hear," says Willie Armstead, 16, an A student at David Starr Jordan High School in the black ghetto of Los Angeles. "It's not so much that I mind being in an all-Negro school. What I care about is not being able to get together with white kids, or just kids with other backgrounds, and discussing ideas." Leslie Harris, 16, a talented musician and a student at Chicago's Wendell Phillips High School, has picketed the Chicago board...