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Colleges throughout the nation have recognized this problem and for the most part have met it squarely. Where there are fraternities--and this includes most schools--women may usually be entertained in the Greek lettered houses until midnight or one o'clock, A survey of Ivy League colleges shows that where strict parietal rules exist for fraternities, deans have seen fit not to enforce them. Other schools have Student Union buildings which provide undergraduates a place in which to talk, and dance, away from the bustle of headwaiters and local citizenry out for a noisy fling...
Harvard College has no recreation building, and it has no fraternities. Its deans realize that a serious social problem exists, but they are unwilling to turn to the Houses to solve it. They feel that our society just does not permit women to be entertained in gentlemen's rooms. To let down the bars, they argue, would offend too many people. They feel it is their duty to the community to arrange that women not be seen entering the Houses at night, and that is their duty to the students to teach them the mores of our society. They feel...
...deans of the College, over whose desks the undergraduate's social problems must pass, have themselves repudiated this double standard. They admit that the parietal rules should not be set up on this basis of age. Yet they continue to treat these rules as something sacrosanct, and the harried undergraduate has learned to regard them as immutable law. The deans have only to look about them at their brother New England colleges and at the graduate schools of their own University to discover that their problem has a solution. If social life at Harvard is to be a normal life...
Blundering, misinformed, and poorly organized, the Student Council muffed an excellent change to perform a really important function. Europe's need for food filled is desperate and there is no earthly reason why Harvard cannot contribute both grain and money. The problem demanded speed and keen insight; the Council treated it in a sluggish and obtuse fashion. Last year's Council committee raised $25,000 for European relief in two quick door-to-door drives. As of today, the two groups are exactly $25,000 apart...
Besides acting on the parking problem, the Council also heard the plans of the newly-formed War Memorial Committee to win Graduate School approval for the Student Activities Center, Under the direction of Phillip Stern '47, the committee will try to convince the University as a whole of the superiority of the Activities Center to the less functional memorial plaque and proposed scholarship plan...