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Along with everything else she came to represent, Anne Frank symbolized the power of a book. Because of the diary she kept between 1942 and 1944, in the secret upstairs annex of an Amsterdam warehouse where she and her family hid until the Nazis found them, she became the most memorable figure to emerge from World War II--besides Hitler, of course, who also proclaimed his life and his beliefs in a book. In a way, the Holocaust began with one book and ended with another. Yet it was Anne's that finally prevailed--a beneficent and complicated work outlasting...
...years after the creation of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (familiarly known as the Annex), with Radcliffe becoming an awkward adolescent, a Crimson editorial reported that the Annex wanted to be more integrated into Harvard...
...hope of the Annex authorities that the two lines of work now running almost parallel may soon merge into one," the editorial read...
According to Radcliffe College Archivist Jane Knowles, some Annex alumnae indeed wanted a closer institutional relationship with Harvard. After all, the point was to get Harvard degrees...
Despite the many Harvard students joining the armed forces, classes in the Yard proceeded--with one new twist: professors now gave their lectures only once, in coed settings on Harvard's campus. World conflict accomplished what the Annex couldn...