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Among the changes advocated by Bunting-Smith was the affiliation of Harvard Houses with Radcliffe dorms, the first of which were between Quincy House and Holmes and Comstock Halls. These affiliations were aimed at raising the level of what Bunting-Smith called ??dinner-table education” at Radcliffe. They also granted women accessibility to scholarly conversations with professors and research assistants that had previously only been granted to male students...
...many Harvard Houses, Kneerim said, had the opportunity to dine with junior and senior faculty members. But Radcliffe women had ??keepers” who watched over them in the legal role of parents...
Kneerim said that she and her classmates were ??all keenly aware” of these inequalities. ??Surely we were all deeply affected by the fact that there were no women in leadership,?? she said. ??You can imagine how extraordinary and marvelous it was when suddenly Radcliffe had a woman president [again]. It was an exciting revolution.?...
...??The Radcliffe Institute was certainly a big step in helping women scholars whose careers had been interrupted to do scholarly work with the support of the Institute,?? Metz said. ??I know that that was one of her first projects, and it was seen as a big step forward for women during that period.?...
Although Bunting-Smith’s tenure predated the emergence of the women’s rights movements of the late 1960s and ??70s, many Radcliffe alumni became actively involved after they graduated...