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Housing and academics are less formal. All dormitories, except for one notoriously male bastion, are co-ed, and cross-registration between Columbia and Barnard is very fluid. All classes at both schools are open to all, but students still register at one or the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Survey of Co-education in The Ivies | 10/4/1974 | See Source »

...thing that Penn has that Harvard probably should have, is an academic women's studies program. The two-year-old version at Penn is rapidly growning, although it is a bastion of female separatism with only a couple of men ever taking its courses--though there are no formal restrictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Survey of Co-education in The Ivies | 10/4/1974 | See Source »

...YORK. Surveying the results of the election, one of the state's most powerful Democratic bosses was moved to heartfelt candor. Meade H. Esposito, leader of the Brooklyn bastion of the old guard, called for a revival of back room politics. Said he: "The back room gave you the best guys-Lehman, Roosevelt, Smith, Harriman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Fresh Faces Were Not Enough | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...kneaded in for 5 cents apiece. The store's growing popularity and extensive publicity, however, have resulted in nightmarishly long lines every evening. The New Yorker referred to Steve's as "the closest thing to night life in the Cambridge-Somerville area," and New Times listed it as a "bastion of ice-cream perfection." They may be right, but go in the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Cream | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...unreasonable to believe the advocacy of such a theory by the president of Radcliffe College--a 95-year-old bastion of women's higher education--would not be exploited by long-standing foes of equal admissions, particularly a policy mandating a one-to-one ratio...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: The Century-Old Merger Issue | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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