Committee Says 'Cliffe Lacks Intellectual Life

Radcliffe lacks an intellectual focus comparable to the Harvard House system, a recently-prepared Student Council report charges. The criticism of college policies, prepared by the Harvard-Radcliffe Affiliation Committee, also calls for absorption of the Radcliffe graduate school within the GSAS, expansion of the House-hall affiliation system.

In supporting an assertion that Radcliffe lacks an "intellectual life," the committee suggested that resident tutors and greater numbers of tutorial groups be instituted there. Although Radcliffe cannot, for financial reasons, provide a House system, the committee felt that it could adopt these specific advantages of the system.

The report, which will be presented to the Council at its meeting Monday, maintained that complete amalgamation of Radcliffe with the College would not provide sufficient administrative advantages to warrant breaking the all-male Harvard College tradition.

Included in the report were results from a poll of students on the affiliation question and comparisons of the Harvard-Radcliffe situation with other paired colleges, such as Columbia-Barnard and Brown-Pembroke. The overwhelming majority of the student polled supported continuation of the present system.

Report Support 4:1 Ratio

Although some Administration spokesmen interviewed by the committee proposed a change in the present Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate ratio, the report called for maintainence of the present 4:1 ratio.

The commitee recognized that there were "implicit differences" in the aims of education for men and women, and recommended that the college therefore place a permanent Radcliffe member on the Committee for Educational Policy.