Trend to Co-education 'Seems Here to Stay'

With its invasion of traditionally male haunts, the Annex across the Common has become a major concern of Harvard University. During the war Harvard gave up the practice of conducting most Radcliffe courses at Radcliffe, and this adjustment to the faculty manpower shortage seems here to stay. Termed "slightly co-educational" by the administration, the system has met with varying degrees of enthusiasm on the part of students and faculty members.

The Radcliffe girl with her pile of books has increased the confusion in already crowded classrooms. She has taken with a minimum of mumbling the classroom changes at the beginning of each term, although she occasionally wonders whether she is attending the Peripatetic School or Harvard University. With good grace she has given up Widener for the basement of Memorial Chapel, and for the most part she obeys the order to "sit in a lady-like manner" on the steps of that building. She ignores the vertical stares of Harvard veterans although she is tempted to retaliate in kind.

The Radcliffe co-ed is even able to overlook Harvard's comments in Time: the peaches are all right, but "Oh, those lemons!" For she has noticed the neater attire of both men and women since Radcliffe's invasion of Harvard Yard, she remembers that the Harvard scoffers came to the Briggs Hall Jolly-up one thousand strong, and she knows that sixty-eight per cent of Radcliffe marriages are with Harvard men.