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...things and people converge around her. Possessions flow from person to person getting broken and lost as they move, a letter comes from abroad and has its stamp ripped off before the addressee sees it, daily events like meals and the arrival of Gordon linen march blindly on, compulsory dorm meetings are held, toilets flushed, people talk. The individual girl has no control over events or time, can start or stop nothing, feels no responsiveness from her world. The stage has no exits...
...INDISPUTABLY difficult to meet people and reach out to them while reading Veblen in a dorm room; how much better to take hammer in hand or pass the crescent wrench...
Radcliffe's dormitory system has some built-in risks, however. With the exception of Wolbach, there are no apartment-like houses without ground floor common rooms. The 13 other brick dormitories have bell systems in which one girl has the job of questioning people entering the dorm. When a girl is on bells, the outside doors are unlocked, or, as in Cabot, are opened with a buzzer for all those who ring...
...Radcliffe sophomore was stabbed at 12:30 p.m. last night in the dining room of Jordan J by an unidentified blond man. The man ran out of the dorm immediately after stabbing Minnie Liu '71 in the thigh with a knife. He reportedly came into the dorm "looking for girls," grabbed the girl on bells, who screamed and ran into the dining room; he followed her, and stabbed Miss Liu, who had her back to him. Miss Liu was taken to the University Health Services, and is reportedly in no danger. As of 1:30 a.m. this morning, Cambridge police...
...even if both administrations give blessing to the idea of merger and coed housing, the greatest problems remain in reconciling firmly held practices of both colleges. Mrs. Bunting has opposed segregating freshmen by dorm, and would not likely compromise to the practice. Radcliffe students will be loathe to give up the approachability of their present administration, the autonomy of R.U.S., and representation on the disciplinary Judicial Board. In a university where inaccessible decision-making is a major grievance, even the most adamant incorporationists will discover they have non-negotiable demands to make of Harvard before they join it freely...