Winthrop House Plans Affiliation With 'Cliffe

"Joint instruction" advanced a step closer to true co-education yesterday with the announcement that Winthrop House and Comstock Hall will combine in joint tutorial groups and in other academic activities next Fall.

In its early stages, the new arrangement will be academically-oriented only, but David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, expected "other opportunities" to develop. He cited informal dramatic and music groups as possible areas of cooperation between Winthrop and Comstock students.

Joint tutorial groups will be established in the Fall, and as many Comstock students as possible will be assigned to Winthrop tutors. Girls will be eligible to join House societies, such as the Social Relations Club, the Science Society, the Economics Table, or the Senior Thesis Seminar.

Idea From Tutors

The idea for the joint arrangement came from Winthrop House tutors, who praised the mixed tutorial groups established this Fall. Owen pointed out that the Winthrop-Comstock combination was a "natural one," since Winthrop tutor Donald R. Brown serves, with his wife, as Head Resident of Comstock.

Owen emphasized the experimental nature of the program. "It will be an academic arrangement, not a social one," he stated. "And there will be no extension of parietal hours in Winthrop for Comstock girls."

Dean Bundy expressed his approval yesterday of the cooperative effort. "It appears to be an exceedingly promising idea," he noted, "and it may well point to an answer of the still unsolved problems of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate education."

It is probable that one or more of the Houses will announce similar programs in the near future.