Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acclimated to our IBM-ized society, yearbooks at Harvard are distinguished by serial numbers--321, 322, and now 323. While the Radcliffe yearbooks is a recent convert to the merger trend, it has at least escaped being reduced to a cipher. The new volume is not "80;" it is still The Radcliffe Yearbook...
...amalgamation of the Radcliffe Yearbook staff with the Harvard Yearbook Publications, Inc., has given Radcliffe girls a book that is bigger, thicker, and slicker than those of the by-gone era of separateness. For some features, the new enlarged book merits enthusiastic praise. The quality of the photography, for instance, is incomparably superior to that of the former all Radcliffe volumes...
...Radcliffe Yearbook is a disappointment in other respects. Most notably, it suffers from too much written copy and too few photographs in proportion. While this criticism is equally applicable to 323, it is especially evident to Radcliffe girls, since previous Annex yearbooks had almost no written matter except a few captions...
...inexcusable that the Radcliffe Yearbook does not contain even one picture of the exterior of a Radcliffe building--not the Fay House gate nor Agassiz nor even a dormitory. And while the faculty is certainly a vital part of a Radcliffe education, devoting one-fifth of the total pages to the professors seems a bit over-generous...
...yearbook can communicate a general impression, 323 emanates one of personalized and some how incommunicable frustration with Harvard. Until the editors find out how to generalize from their own experiences, learn to document a serious argument, and learn to recognize an important issue, they will have to be content with white-wash, spotted here and there with blotches of unhappiness. When they do learn about these things, they may produce a really interesting publication...