Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focal point of student social life, and important events to Radcliffe women in those days were the dorm "jollyups," roughly equivalent to today's mixers. The jollyups were real meeting places, for, as Dorothy Elia Howells '60, author of "A Century to Celebrate": Radcliffe College 1879-1979, reports, a Harvard man could call a Radcliffe woman and tell her he had met her at a jollyup, even if he hadn't, and be virtually assured of her going out with him. On the other hand, The Crimson in September, 1950 said, "Jollyups are famous for the 5-2-1 quota...
...college was making significant innovations with the Radcliffe seminars in the early fifties and started construction of Holmes Hall and the Cronkhite Graduate Center, The Crimson devoted more coverage to the stealing of Lampoon's Ibis, to the annual Miss Radcliffe contest (Lois Love Eberling '54, a concentrator in Social Relations, was the winner in this year's 25th reunion class) and to the autumn, 1953 controversy over whether to extend Radcliffe parietal hours from 10 to 11 p.m. (They eventually were extended, but only for seniors in Group IV or above). The Crimson, and most Harvard men, ignored...
...attention--the controversy over joint instruction in classes. In the fall of 1950, 267 members of the Class of 1954, and the approximately 700 other Radcliffe students in the preceding three classes, were able to enroll in all Harvard courses except five: Mathematics 1, Astronomy 1a, Economics 1, Social Relations 1a, and Music 1. In following years, women were also allowed to enroll in these courses...
...said the group is protesting the social costs of the arms race as well as the destructive dangers...
...terrific appointment because Pizzorno is a very prominent and extremely stimulating professor." Peter Lange, associate professor of Government said yesterday. Lange added that Pizzorno's background and writing in social theory "will be his greatest asset to the Sociology department...