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Radcliffe, for the all-too-many who don’t know, was founded in 1879 as the “Harvard Annex,” where upper-crust young women could gain access to a Harvard education; in 1894, the Harvard Annex was renamed Radcliffe College after Ann Radcliffe, an English aristocrat who in 1643 was the first woman to make a bequest to Harvard. Professors would teach men in Harvard Yard in the morning, then walk down to Radcliffe Yard for afternoon classes with the women. Women were housed separately and, for fear of what might take place...
...until 250 years after Ann Radcliffe donated 100 pounds sterling to the University that Harvard finally found a place to stick her name. Harvard’s nascent women’s college was in desperate need of a name change in 1893—before then-University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, dubbed it Radcliffe, it was known as “X College.” A century later, Harvard’s wayward daughter has been fully merged into the University, but its physical legacy—the dormitories up Garden Street—remains...
...years ago, baby boomers Ann Bancroft, 48, and Liv Arnesen, 50, became the first women to cross Antarctica by foot--trekking 1,700 miles in nearly three months in temperatures as cold as -35F. The duo write about their experience in No Horizon Is So Far. TIME spoke with Bancroft...
...Antarctica Adventure Explorer Ann Bancroft discusses her new book, which details her record-breaking 1,700-mile trek across Antarctica...
...percentage of taxes and if we do not join the international community in both economic and military planning, then we will find ourselves, quite simply, dead in the water. All conceivable future advancements will amount to nothing if we fail to address the problems that are here and now. Ann Larson Reno...