Radcliffe Girls Form Novel Club And Date Bureau

"The Radcliffe myth must be exploded" Miss Hariette Slote, Radcliffe '42 declared vehemently in explaining the "Gay Group," an undergraduate quartet devoted to changing Harvard boys' opinions of Radcliffe girls.

"Harvard boys have said some pretty uncomplimentary things about us but we will change all that," Miss Slote said yesterday.

She went on to explain that the group would go to almost any extreme to change certain very obnoxious traits, always associated with Radcliffe girls, the most obnoxious being the "Radcliffe Walk." "If we can eliminate that factor from the campus and also make most of the girls realize the value of always looking presentable, then I feel that we will be able to disband with a clear conscience.

"For a while we made so little progress that we were forced to open a small date bureau, never dreaming in the world that the idea would ever take hold, but about the second night we fixed up nearly half of the Business School with dates for their Columbus Day dance," she boasted. Miss Slote was very careful to affirm that the date bureau would be abandoned as soon as the 'Group' made some noticeable impression on Harvard boys, and that it was not an end in itself but merely the means to one.

The present membership is four but formerly it was five, one of the girls being expelled from college shortly after the academic year began. The present members of the quartet are Miss Deedo Forest '41, Miss Jeane League '41, Miss Katharine Marrs, of the Smith School of Architecture, and Miss Slote.