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Only six contestants participated in the women's division. Barbara Norris (Dunster House) won the race, followed by Debbie McLane (Eliot House) and Alma Heywards (Lowell House...
...number of possible slots open for their sons in future years. Second, and more importantly, women are supposedly not able to donate at the same levels as men because they are traditionally not the bread-winners, and because married couples usually give more to the husband's alma mater than the wife's. Therefore, a reduction in men now is supposed to mean a severe drop in contributions 20 years from now. Money, then, is one of thickest and hardest layers to be eaten through if Harvard and Radcliffe are ever to become a single University dedicated to equal access...
...increase in women would not have more than a very short term effect on giving patterns in general. What's more the facts and statistics available for recent years tend to disprove assertions that women cannot be counted on to cough up large amounts of money to their alma mater...
...presumed fait accompli faltered as Radcliffe alumnae came to the defense of their alma mater. And Harvard die-hards came forward to reiterate the rudiments of their long-standing skepticism regarding merger. Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, subtly summed it all up: "The most brutal formulation of the problem of merger might mean achieving sexual diversity at the expense of other kinds of diversity...
...inception of Radcliffe. This time around, Harvard could not see that it had much to gain financially--despite the changes in values and career opportunities that women are now experiencing Harvard administrators are quick to point out that women do not contribute as much financially or educationally to their alma maters...