Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century, Harvard had fostered an "academic culture" that promoted scholarship for scholarship's sake, intellectual research relatively free of social constraint, and a solemn respect for creative academic thought. Because of its commitment to this ideal (and to a lesser extent, according to Lipset's analysis, because of its access to influence and financial resources), Harvard came to be though of as something of a sacred place for scholars. This was the Harvard that Lipset and his colleagues came to cherish so deeply, and this was the Harvard that Lipset believed was being undermined by the anti-intellectual subculture...
Though Harvard may not open its heart to women in the college community, the Faculty last week gave its support to the idea of opening its gates and admission processes to more women, adopting the equal access recommendations in the Strauch Report...
With only three of its members casting thumbs-down votes, the Faculty voted Tuesday to adopt the major recommendations of the Strauch Committee in a move that will institute equal access adminissions for the Class of 1980 pending the approval of the Radcliffe Trustees and the Governing Boards...
...Equal access is in fact preferred access for women" and will create "manly women" concentrating in the sciences and athletics, he said...
...week before the Faculty meeting, 14 Faculty members doubting that equal access would be implemented adequately, sent a letter to female and male professors calling for an amendment to the report that would guarantee an eventual equality in the number of men and women undergraduates...