As if anybody doubted the status of the omnipresent female-in-the-Harvard-classroom, University and Radcliffe governing bodies yesterday officially recognized what has been going on for the past five years and said that it could go on forever as far as they were concerned.

Their legal gyrations were merely the formalizing of joint instruction in the Yard "where separate instruction would be wasteful of faculty personnel." The Radcliffe Board of Trustees and the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers made the announcement.

Their action followed by six months an anonymous tip that the Faculty had approved existing arrangements between the University and Radcliffe.

Freshmen Still Separate

Joint instruction, as opposed to co-education, started in 1942 to ease the professors' pain of having to deliver the same lecture twice--once here and once at the 'Cliffe--a condition which has existed since the founding of Radcliffe in 1879.

Most Freshmen classes will continue to be taught separately.