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...Stade, while expressing "frank surprise" at the reports from Radcliffe, agreed that there could be no comparison because "girls are different from boys." He had warned last fall that the 'Cliffe program would hurt upperclass athletics there...
Commenting on the voluntary plan at its inception last fall, Harvard officials expressed fear that the upperclass athletic program would suffer if freshman physical training were not compulsory. At Radcliffe, the experiment has had results contrary to this prediction...
...trilogy, Waugh seems to be turning back from the mannered romanticism of Brideshead Revisited. But this is not the exuberant young cynic of Decline and Fall, Black Mischief and A Handful of Dust; sophistication has been supplanted by weary wisdom, not-so-innocent merriment by middle-aged melancholy. The upperclass war the trilogy chronicles-in bars and blackouts, billets and beds-will for many bear only a limited resemblance to any real war they knew or imagined. Its dialogue is so Britishly British that it is bound to set some New World teeth on edge. But however limited...
Parker claimed that the upperclass athletic program would suffer greatly if freshmen physical training were made voluntary...
Perhaps worst off are Freshmen, who have fewer privileges, and even less influence with the administrative board. Their eight o'clock Saturday hours do not stand up well to any argument. Yet in their failure to get reasonable concessions can be seen the heart of the upperclass dilemma, for the same resistance to change is working, and the same deafness prevails...