"Beware if Your Friend Is a Harvard Man," Warns Planned Radcliffe Guide

Three Radcliffe students, preparing a guide for girls planning spring vacation cruises, warn that Harvard men are "most dangerous of all," in their publication to be placed on sale shortly to all Radclifites.

Featuring a "word to the wise" one article says, "When the moon comes up over a silvery southern sea, and you stand on the promenade in your gold formal with a big handsome thing, watching the porpoises playing around the stern of the ship--then beware, if your friend is a Harvard man."

"College Chums"

Enlarging upon this warning, the author continues, "Harvard men are generally the most dangerous of college chums. Princeton men are smooth enough, and Yaleys handsome enough. But Harvard men, like Radcliffe women, have a deeper culture. Harvard education is of the academic sort; it has no practical applications, soaked in the experiences of a long distant past, and experience in the most effete of circles--for they are generally well-to-do families--they emerge very sophisticated, very smooth and very formidable."

According to the guide, all Harvard men are not as desirable as the best of them, for there is another species "not the type one is apt to meet on a southern cruise," who is not so much the ladies' man, and who lacks the romantic danger of the others.

"Such wiuld be the 'meatball' type," the article declares, whom one sees grinding away, unkempt and bespectacled, in Widener Library; or the science major whose nose has been buried in a laboratory since he first entered Harvard, and so is neither very formidable nor very appealing."