Word: annexation
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...Arthur Gilman, a Cambridge historian. "Dear Sir," Mr. Gilman wrote, "I am engaged in perfecting a plan which shall afford women opportunites for carrying their studies forward further than it is possible for them, to do in this country . . ." Eliot agreed that Gilman had a worthy idea, and the Annex was soon to be in operation...
...long, long time after the Massachusetts General Court approved a charter for Radcliffe College in 1894, Harvard remained generally cordial but indifferent to the Annex and its occupants. It is, however, impossible to remain aloof today...
Over 60.3 percent of the Annex's 1,006 undergraduates participated in the straw vote poll...
...Radcliffe administration attributed this sparce anticipated turnout partly to the fact that only about a fourth of the Annex students are over 21 and eligible to vote. Residence and absentee ballot requirements were also factors. The majority of those that will vote are seniors...
...Stevenson victory is a reversion to the previous Radcliffe political trend after the 1948 sharp turn-about when the Annex went strongly Republican and cast 281 votes for Thomas E. Dewey to 61 for President Truman. In 1944, 1940, and 1936, Radcliffe students supported Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and the Democratic party...