Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central role that the House system plays in social life at Harvard stems from the original function and purpose of the House system. As the Dean's Subcommittee on Parietals wrote in its report of last spring...
...students are drawn into academic and extracurricular activities through which students make and reinforce relationships with others--dramatic productions, musical activities, House courses, and others. While activities of this sort exist on a college-wide level, the fact remains that, due to the goals and structure of the House system, students in general have much more frequent contacts with those in their own House, and it is much easier to form and maintain relationships inside the House than outside...
...position of the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee that, despite some structural changes in the House system in recent years, the Houses can still be characterized as maie institutions. All the students and faculty members who live in a House and regularly participate in House activities are male. Women are allowed into the House only upon the invitation of a House member. They are his guests, not members of the House community. They must be "signed in" to and "signed out" of the House. While women can and often do participate in House activities (e.g., dramatic productions), House courses or tutorials...
...comments that have been made about Harvard's House system apply equally well to Radcliffe. Just as Cliffies (or any other women) are not in any real sense full participants in the dining or residential life of Harvard students, Harvard men are not fully a part of Radcliffe's dining or residential system. It is instructive that, while Radcliffe has a policy of permitting Harvard students to dine on interhouse at weekday lunches, few Harvard students utilize this option. One of the reasons is that Harvard students feel awkward entering a Radcliffe dining hall without being specifically invited...
...position of the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee that the present system of limited coeducational contacts is so detrimental in so many ways that it makes a change in the pattern and style of coeducational life at Harvard mandatory. Since, under Harvard's residential structure, the Houses are the center of social life, this change must take place within the House system. The lack of other institutions (e.g., a student union) that might provide for informal coeducational contacts places even greater emphasis upon the necessity for change in the coeducational role of the Houses...