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Short Time. There was some excitement over the town's accounts, which have been in disarray since 1967, when the selectmen did not bother to submit a financial report. "I wish to ask the town treasurer," one citizen snapped, "why there are so many discrepancies in her accounting." Mabel Smith, town clerk and treasurer, a sturdy, pugnacious widow who between meetings virtually runs Mount Vernon, crustily invited any doubters to check the receipts at the bank. One of Mrs. Smith's responsibilities is to record the town's deaths, births and marriages. These days, however, she publicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: American Scene: Participatory Democracy | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...Bunting began a program to build a House system at Radcliffe in 1961. However, only next year when "Currier relieves our overcrowding" will Radcliffe have enough space for resident tutors, she said. Radcliffe's first-and this year only-resident tutor moved into Mabel Daniels this Fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe to Have Resident Tutors Living in Some Dorms Next Year | 2/26/1970 | See Source »

Depending on the number of seniors moving into apartments next year, graduate students may live in North, South, and East Houses. Currier House already has rooms for 12 resident tutors. At present Mabel Daniels Hall is the only Radeliffe dormitory with a resident tutor. Mrs. Austin expressed the hope that Radcliffe's housing system would eventually approximate Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radeliffe Will Close Down Four Off-Campus Houses | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

...today, four Masters from Harvard and Radcliffe have proposed to President Pusey two exchanges for next semester: between Adams and South (Barnard, Briggs, Bertram, and Mabel Daniels) and Winthrop and North (Holmes. Moors, and Cosmetic). Each of these would involve up to 100 students-50 from each campus-in a one-semester "experimental exchange," East House (Cabot, Whitman, and Eliot) is working on two exchanges. A Lowell-East swap may be proposed before the end of the month, and the Cliffies are also sounding out Duster on its willingness to go coed...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Brass Tacks Coed Housing | 11/10/1969 | See Source »

...target date for the merger is September, 1970. Supposedly Curlier House, Radcliffe's fourth and fanciest house, will be completed at that time. Currier is looked on as a major step toward coed housing. Its separate entries and general comfort (similar to Mabel Daniels) will make it easier to attract men to Radcliffe. Unfortunately, as Mather House has taught us, it may be September, 1971, before Currier is actually fit for habitation. So far, however, Currier is on schedule...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Brass Tacks Coed Housing | 11/10/1969 | See Source »

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