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Mayman, whose appointment will last three years, will focus on the extracurricular arts. In addition she will supervise the budgets and staffs of Radcliffe's ongoing programs in dance and pottery. She will work out of an office in Radcliffe's Agassiz building...
...college still had no name. Since its inception it had officially been called "The Society for the Intercollegiate Instruction of Women." Agassiz proposed to name it for Ann Radcliffe, who, in 1643, donated 100 pounds of sterling for a Harvard scholarship. In 1894, the Annex was incorporated as "Radcliffe College...
...back as 1879, there was such a thing as a "Harvard girl." And although the term, coined by Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Radcliffe's founder and first president, was used by almost no one else, it foreshadowed the course of the alliance between the two bastions of higher education and the future of Radcliffe women...
...President Eliot and the Fellows of Harvard College realized they would have to contend with the Annex. After painstaking negotiations. Agassiz finally persuaded Harvard to take some responsibility for the girls at "X College:" Harvard's President agreed to countersign the women's diplomas; Harvard assumed responsibility for approving Faculty appointments; and, the President and the Fellows were to be the "visitors of X College...
...Agassiz retired and LeBaron R. Briggs, dean of Harvard College, became the president. During his term, the endowment expanded, the curriculum was diversified, and the Faculty grew--Radcliffe was assured permanence. The objections of Corporation members and alumni stalwarts, which had been loudly voiced in Radcliffe's initial years, gradually died down...