Radcliffe Girls to Have Private Phones in Fall

Radcliffe girls will be able to have private telephones in their rooms next year, President Wilbur K. Jordan said yesterday.

All the brick dormitories and off-campus houses owned by the college will be wired during the summer, President Jordan explained," and any student who can pay her bills and installation fee will be able to have her own phone."

"The college will finance and arrange for general wiring," Emily B. Lacey, 'Cliffe Dean of Residence, said, "but individual installations and bills will be direct transactions between the students and the telephone company." Installations will probably be limited to two or three periods during the year, she added.

There will also be at least one incoming line added to each of the dormitories, so that the additional lines and private phones can relieve congestion. At present, Radcliffe has only one telephone for every 25 girls.

The general renovation will include the replacement of the central switchboard of Fay House, by a dial system like Harvard's for inter-office and out-going calls. The switchboard will be used only for incoming calls.

There will also be switchboard service open until late at night to handle the rush of calls early in the fall term. Later in the term the information switchboard will be open 24 hours a day.

"We hope to have everything ready by next fall," Stewart Stearns, Radcliffe Business Manager, said "since we certainly have outgrown our present telephone system.

"There is expense involved," Stearns added, "but the college recognizes the need and desire for telephones, and is glad to pay for them."