Wanna Know All About Annex? This Is From Horse's Mouth

Mr. Norris lives near Radcliffe and takes most of his classes with Annex scholars. He naturally knows more about them than other Niemans, for whom he has prepared these notes. They may help you, too.)

The average Radcliffe College freshman weighs 128 pounds, is 18 years of age, is five feet, five inches in height, and has a father with an income of $7,000 to $10,000 a year.

She and the sophomore, junior, senior and graduate averages come from New England homes, wear sweaters, skirts and low-heeled shoes (but seldom black horn-rimmed glasses and, complying with college rules, no blue jeans, ski pants, slacks or the like except in dormitories at certain hours and outdoors in sub-zero, blizzard weather). They prefer arts to technical courses, and are enrolled in the only college in the world that doesn't have a faculty of its own.

Silver Spoon

Each student is asked to care for her room (which is inspected periodically) and to work for not more than five hours weekly at "bell duty," waiting on table in the dormitory dining halls, and "light pantry work." There are no sororities, but the students have organized 19 clubs for entertainment or uplift, or both.

Each class gives a set of Radcliffe china to its first member to be married following graduation, and the first girl born to a member of each class gets a silver spoon and becomes the class mascot. Increasingly in recent months, the girls are marrying before they graduate, probably because of the threat of war. Usually they marry during the Christmas holidays and return to college. After graduation, about 40 per cent get jobs, 29 per cent do graduate work.

Freshmen are given a handbook which advises, "It isn't Good Idea to go out with an unknown man who simply calls up and asks for a date . . . As for the man who sits next to you in Psychology, well, you have eyes, haven't you?

"Keep your shoes on indoors and out. Smoothly tanned or well-made-up stock-ingless legs are customary in the spring . . . Sunbathing in public, lounging on steps, sprawling on the grass--these aren't Good Ideas . . . Eat where people don't mind your eating. In the far reaches of the library, potato chips sound like static on a 1932 radio . . . Classes begin at seven past the hour; lectures are not like continuous movies, so don't come into a lecture in the middle . . . Radcliffe in the spring is lovely . . . But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island . . . Radcliffe girls ought to look like ladies; it is imperative that they be recognized as girls."