Marriage and Marks Mix Well at Radcliffe

In spite combining housework with homework, the Missus at Radcliffe has one up academically on her unmarried classmates. Not a single married student now in the College or in last year's graduating class ranked below Group Five, Dean's Office listings show.

Motherhood, however, had its setbacks. Other Dean's Office figures show that no student who had interrupted her College career to have children were graduated with honors last June. Meanwhile, the unemcumbered married students boasted ten Cum Laude graduates and five magua award winners.

But for two who already had their families before coming to Radcliffe, motherhood proved no obstacle. The first during her College career managed three children, her curriculum, had a GI husband; the second managed one child, the curriculum, and the husband. Both received cum laude degrees.

"Marriage has a setting influences," they claim; if so, Radcliffe is with it all tie way. 46 percent of the married students were graduated with honors, compared with only 33 percent of regular senior students who gained honors.

The undergraduate Mesdames continued the trend. Of married students in College last year, three ranked in Group One, two in Group Two, seven in Group Three, and the remainder in Groups Four and Five.

Four of the married students were penalized, however, regardless of high academic achievement, Withdrawal cards hlamed it all on "prospective motherhood."