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...spring of 1970, 150 Harvard men and 150 Radcliffe women agreed to switch places in the colleges’ first experiment in co-ed housing. Men moved up to the Quad to share bathrooms with Radcliffe women, and women moved to the River to walk the men’s hallways. The experiment was a success: the two colleges traded nearly 700 students the following fall...
Dates may have been formal then, but they were also more frequent and less serious. Phil dated “a slew of girls,” although not many Quad residents, in his first two years at Harvard and felt he never got to know any of them well...
...classes. Like other girls, she went on meticulously planned dates, dressing up and going into Boston for plays, the symphony, and visits to art museums. For those who didn’t have luck finding dates, there would be consolatory milk and cookies on Saturday nights and awkward Quad formals to which they could invite men anonymously...
...even had to pass a literal gauntlet in the Quad: the infamous bells desk. North House had only one entrance, one staircase, and one elevator, and the bells desk guarded them all. Barbara’s weekly stint at the desk, where she controlled the switchboard and single phone line, kept her up-to-date on the dorm’s romantic drama. It even gave her the chance to broadcast information about friends’ dates using a code. One buzz was a phone call; two, a female visitor; three, a male visitor. Staccato buzzes meant an attractive male...
...there was another side to a system that protected female virginity. Women entered the Faculty Club through a side door, were forbidden from entering Lamont Library and could eat lunch at just two places outside the Quad on their own. At the all-male Freshman Union, now the Barker Center, boys showed their appreciation for a visiting girl’s looks by tapping their forks on glasses...