Word: betweeners
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The issues and events that affected the Class of 1974 ran the gamut. Political issues like the Vietnam War and the draft were at the forefront, but Harvard students were also tackling the problems of diversity on campus and a rapidly changing relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe.
Radcliffe was made a little moreinteresting--and a little more nebulous--with the"non-merger merger," an agreement between thecolleges approved by the Board of Overseers andthe Radcliffe Board of Trustees in 1971. Under theagreement, Harvard absorbed responsibility for allof Radcliffe's finances. Radcliffe, however,maintained its governing board, presidency...
RoAnn Costin '74, a varsity swimmer and memberof the first Radcliffe rowing team, calls the 1973merger between the Harvard and Radcliffe athleticdepartments a major victory for female athletes.
Carty's college experience was very different from her colleagues,' thanks to an unusual decision she made in the summer between her sophomore and junior years. It was then that she married Brian T. Carty'71, whom she began dating as a first year student.
"Our class was the in-between class. It was a class in transition," he says, referring to the radical activists who stormed University Hall in 1969 before his class came to Harvard and the divestment supporters who came along well after Sagansky left the College.