'Cliffe Will Admit More Girls From South in '56-'57

The Radcliffe Board of Admissions will focus its attention primarily on the South next year, President Wilbur K. Jordan announced yesterday.

President Jordan explained that the new emphasis on the South was a result of studies of scholastic standings of applicants for the class of 1958, which showed that "as a geographical group, the girls from the South had amazingly high and superior records."

The Admissions Board will activate its new policy in January by sending a faculty panel to a number of southern cities, where they will discuss "important and controversial educational issues with an audience of Harvard and Radcliffe graduates and parents of past and prospective students," Jordan said.

Plans for the southern trip are already under way. Mildred P. Sherman, dean of College Relations, will conclude next week a preliminary visit to the South where she has been making arrangements with local Harvard and Radcliffe alumni groups.