Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peter P. Brooks '59, of Eliot House and New Canaan, Conn., will read history for a B.A. at University College, University of London; and David D. Robbins '59, of Eliot House and Los Angeles, Calif., will study English literature for a B.A. at Trinity Hall, Cambridge...
...girls smarter?" Few Harvard students will admit the superiority of their black-stockinged counterparts. If the Cliffies do happen to take home higher grades, such happenings are easily explained away by apple-polishing or by sentimental tales of Mathla, where there was a girl who "couldn't even read numbers." The girls, on the other hand, explained their consistently better records by claims to sheer intellectual power...
Speculation about the 'Cliffies' better grades has run the gamut from libidinal explanations to pure intellectual superiority. However, the most reasonable explanation is found in "conscientiousness." Admittedly generalizations are dangerous, but Radcliffe students actually tend to do more work, to do greater amounts of reading, and to concentrate more upon marks. In the long run, girls come out ahead, Edward P.Morris, head tutor of the Department of Romance Languages, says. This superiority, however, is not due to innate ability, but rather to "instilled habits." "Fewer girls than boys get E's. Their average minimum level of conscientiousness is probably higher...
...examinations. Graders unconsciously tend to give higher marks to blue-books inscribe in the true Palmer method. Girls' cursive skills-a neat flowing style of writing rather than a hasty blot of cramped scribbling-provide a margin that cannot be overlooked. "It's true that it's easier to read exams written by girls," on grader notes, "just because their handwriting is far better than boys.' I suppose they might gain half a grade of more by this method...
...like any of these suggested essay topics. But what I am interested in is....' She is much more likely to take a special interest in some one problem or element of a course, and want to follow through by herself. In contrast to this, a boy will read the list of paper topics, pick out an appropriate one, then deal with it matter-of-factly as best as he can." In short, a girl's dedication to doing all the reading religiously in a course does not necessarily restrict her to a dry, unimaginative, conservative way of treating an academic...