Cliffies Get Tutors, Harvard Registration

Creeping mergtrism has gotten off its hands and knees and is running at top speed. Come September, Cliffies are going to register in Memorial Hall along with students of the male annex. Bunting explained yesterday that the Radcliffe Registrar's Office is being closed because of the expense to Radcliffe and the confusion to Faculty members Harvard will handle all registration, and Radcliffe will pay the University an undisclosed disclosed fee.

Robert Shenton, Registrar of Harvard college and of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, declined to comment at the change.

Presumably, the change will bring about greater uniformity in petty details and less confusion for Faculty members when reporting grades.

But to Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, the change is far more significant--it's yet another part of a trend which is gratifying to some and alarming to others.

One typically articulate Harvard freshmen grunted "Yeccchhh.'"

Upperclassmen had a more positive outlook: "There could be some pinching in the lines," grinned a sophomore optimistically. A junior looks forward to registration as "another way to meet Cliffies. And that's a good time to do it, too. Competing in a line isn't so bad, I guess." Another junior said "I guess it'll like the shoving more fun."

One senior waxed eloquent on the possibilities of greater equality: "It'll be okay, but none of this 'ladies first' crap. In other lines, the guys-in-charge snarl at us and smile at them. But now Cliffies will get the same lousy section men we do, and the myth of the brain gap will disappear."

One junior at the 'Cliffe echoed the articulate Harvard freshman, but she qualify her "yeccchhh" by noting that she apply objected to the crowds. A senior is also upset by the idea of crowds, but used that as far as Harvard men were concerned. "I never notice them anyway." But most others looked forward to the merger. A girl in Comstock said "I like it because it gives us equality," while an off-campus junior signed, "Oh I'm so glad."

But the most positive response of all came from another junior. She replied, "Register with Harvard? I though we always did! Onward to unity. We should do it at night and combine it with the mixer!"

For those of you who can't remember past the Lamont scare, here's a brief chronology:

1879--Radcliffe is born.

1900--PBH becomes a Harvard-Radcliffe Organization.

1943--Harvard takes contractual responsibility for instructing Cliffies in Harvard classrooms.

1960--Cliffies admitted to Stillman.

1962--Female graduate students enrolled in Harvard GSAS.

1963--Cliffies get Harvard degrees.

1965--PBH and HRO elect female presidents.

1966--CRIMSON elects female managing editor. Creeping mergerism approaches Lament. Registration merged