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...most attractive aspects of the college is, simply, that it is a friendly place. As one Harvard undergraduate succinctly observed, "When you walk into a dorm at Smith, you feel as though the walls are made of icebergs; when you walk into a dorm at Holyoke, everyone is warm and friendly." This congeniality is felt just as keenly by the girls themselves as by visitors; and for freshmen, the informal, friendly atmosphere considerably eases the transition from secondary school to college...
Sign-out hours are an example of Mount Holyoke's protectiveness. Girls must be in their dorm by 11 p.m. on week nights, midnight on Friday, and 1 a.m. on Saturday. Catherine P. Robinson, Dean of Residence, justified the stringency of the rules: The Holyoke girl is really freer than she thinks. The college is responsible for minors, and we cannot run a community of 1600 girls without law and order. It is up to the institution to set standards of behavior...
...further stressed the inadequacy of the local police force to protect the girls. Anyone who leaves the dorm after 8 p.m. must sign out where she is going; explained Dean Robinson, "If I have to start looking for girls I want to know which state police to call." But no matter how valid the reasons for the stringency of the sign out regulations, it nonetheless seems vaguely insulting that a 21-year old woman must be told she must be in at 1 a.m. Saturday...
...room to use your own discretion," The whole atmosphere of Mount Holyoke is a protective one which tries to mold each girl into The Image. Many girls cited instances of the college's big brother watchfulness. One told of an occasion when her boyfriend dropped into her dorm to visit her. Because he had been in his shirtsleeves, the head resident later took the girl aside and asked her whether her parents knew just what type of boy she was dating...
...want to get in touch with anyone of a particular flavor and can't judge adequately from the Freshman Register, you should go to certain addresses. Peaches center about dorm living rooms, the Spa, Widener reading room, and organized social functions. Chocolates are upstairs in their room, in Mallinckrodt, in "Rad Libe," in Restaurants, at their organization's headquarters, or eating early dinner. Limes are also in Widener (although more likely in the stacks, than the reading room), in cafeterias and coffee shops, in the Fogg, and in people's apartments...