Fair Harvard

For the first time since before the war, the traditional riot call of "Rinehart!"* sounded again through the Harvard Yard. Since every Harvardman is either a little liberal or else a little conservative, ostensibly the trouble had something to do with politics. The Liberal Union was marching through the Yard, protesting Winston Churchill's "warmongering." Partisans of the Conservative League decided to break up the parade, and--Rinehart! The riotous reason was really spring, and like a maenadic overtone sounded the shrill, feminine piping of Radcliffe girls, now virtually coeds at Harvard.

Radcliffe girls were admitted to Harvard classes during the war because of teacher shortages. Announcing that the girls will stay on in peacetime, Harvard beat the coed devil around the bush by calling this "joint instruction."

Reaction to "joint instruction" was varied. Said a Radcliffe sophomore: "You're just bound to find the situation distracting unless you're a great brain." Said Professor Payson Wild Jr.: "I think the exchange of opinion between man and woman fruitful." Harvard Senior Roger MacDougal, who takes the historic Harvard view that Radcliffe girls are unspeakably undatable, spoke for the Harvard masses. Said he: "The peaches are all right, but oh, those lemons!"

Vassar College, at a special night session of the faculty last week, voted to admit men as nonresident students until the school shortage for ex-G.I.s ends. Some 50 promptly applied. The girls at Long Island's Adelphi College voted 3-to-i to admit men, but trustees decided to think the idea over.

* Named after a lonely grind of the 1900s who (the story goes) grieved because no friends called on spring nights, went below his own window in the Yard and shouted his own name.

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