A Source of Embarassment

And Perkins, although he likes the Annex, still thinks "the Yard looked better before, with just Harvard men." Cherington along with some others, asked for "no handholding in the yard: if embarasses the Faculty."

One section man commented that some girls like to write "sweet little noises," to their section men at the end of exams. And most of them found girls' knitting very distracting and annoying.

The man with a remarkable number of Annex students in his English 160 course, Robert Chapman, commented, "Why are Radcliffe girls always so conscious of the opinions of others?"

Chapman, co-anther of "Billy Budd," has assisted Radcliffe girls in many of their theatrical productions.

Still, the old saying that "familiarity breeds contempt" just isn't true these days. The undergraduate succumbed first to the Radcliffe girl's charm, although he attributed her overall mark superiority to her "learning everything by role, spewing it forth at exams, and getting A's, or that failing, sidling up to an instructor, displaying a little leg, and getting an A."

The girls answer thus (in the 1953 production of "Drumbeats and Song"):

We wit reading over due books,

We scribble into blue books,

What's more, we fall in love with all our section men."

Who found with some observing that

Not only graphs are curving and

Radcliffe girls stack up quite well with Harvard men.

And Howard E. Huge, assistant professor of General Education, summed it all up: "It certainly makes teaching a lot more attractive.