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Stacy Kucharski '68, chairman of the committee, reported the results of the poll, representing a 45 per cent response, at the RGA meeting yesterday and will present them to Ruth K. Porritt, librarian of Radcliffe, as recommendations. The poll revealed the following complaints...
...library's new location is also expected to bring change in student study patterns. For one thing, the Center will probably stay open until midnight, since late long walks back to the dorms will no longer be a problem. Ruth K. Porritt, Radcliffe Librarian, expects that the added distance will discourage many graduate students who now study in Radcliffe Library from using the new Study Center. At the same time, she predicts that the number of study dates will increase. Mrs. Bunting expects that the Center's proximity to the dorms will also bring many more girls back home...
...design itself follows no established style. The standard description--that it is "reminiscent of buildings in New Orleans and Italy"--is none too definitive. Miss Porritt suggests that the building is "vaguely Italian Renaissance, although not in the same sense that Sever is Italian Renaissance." And an imaginative parent took one look at the plaster model and pegged it "houseboat motif...
...four administration members voting are President Bunting: Miss Mary H. Winslow, director of residence; Miss Ruth K. Porritt, Radcliffe librarian; and David H. Evett, RGA parliamentarian...
Miss Ruth K. Porritt, Radcliffe librarian, expressed no preferences about having boys in the library. "We want to do what pleases the girls," she said. "If you are a girl and a boy is in the room," she concluded sympathetically, "you can't relax and put your feet on the table...