Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contradiction to the unfortunate statement quoted in the March 16 CRIMSON, we wish to say that in our opinion much of the credit for the success of "Wonderful Town" is due to the many Harvard men who were involved in the production. Were it not for their help the show might well have been but another Drumbeats disaster. We would, therefore, like to apologize for any misunderstanding that may have resulted from this remark, and here thank the better half of the show. Vivian Thomas Kyra Gordon Jane Hallowell Louise N. Bell Carola Kittredge Harriet S. Popham Susan Colt Doolittle...
...addition, Bardeen pointed out, Faculty members represent a "source of highly informed opinion" which would be "invaluable" as a supplement to undergraduate discussion groups held by the club...
...Wilbur K. Jordan appointed a committee of three student leaders and two deans to make a year-long study of the system Striving, as one member of the group said, "to reconcile ideals and utility," the committee held bi-weekly discussions and sponsored a Radcliffe News poll of student opinion. Issued in June, 1954, the group's report called for a return of authority to the proctor, and emphasized the proctor's duty to report infractions of a set of revised rules. Student objections to reporting others' rule violations were largely overlooked by the committee, which urged that girls continue...
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...
...half century. During the general unrest of the nineteen-twenties, Radcliffe girls were bound by a social system of comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that caused apprehension among members of the Administration. Ada L. Comstock, then President of the Annex, voiced the opinion, "You never take a step back--once you go forward, you never retreat." But she was at least partly mistaken, for the amending of senior privilege in the forties reversed the trend by lessening social freedom. As for the library honor system, it too exists in modified form, and today...