In view of official policy of avoiding contests where the possibility of success is dim, it is gratifying to salute the two Radcliffe dormitories which have so wisely declined to enter Glamour magazine's contest for America's best dressed college girls.

In rejecting the contest, spokesmen for the Houses, their costumes eloquently endorsing their words, condemned the idea as "un-Radcliffe." The vigor with which the rejection was made, however, has stimulated detractors to ask whether this enthusiasm is not too much of a good thing. Some have even suggested that funds from recent gifts should be set aside for blanket distribution of Vogue, or if this is too abrupt, of Seventeen.

But this suggestion is most unfair, for the Radcliffe wardrobe is practical, concealing, and suitably unstriking. It would be dangerous to demand more than this, and the recent assertion of independence from the norms of femininity must be applauded as most Radcliffe.