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...million budget, $11.6 million is used for tuition for Radcliffe women, $1 million for undergraduate financial aid for women, and the $5 million balance for administration and programs. Five million is not enough to run Radcliffe, the Board feels, so this year it launched a Century Fund Drive to bring alumni annual giving to $1 million in three years and to raise $10 million over the next five years to improve existing programs...
...while the Harvard Board of Overseers and the Harvard Corporation have moved uncomfortably into the limelight because of the way it is handling investments in companies which operate in South Africa, Radcliffe has quietly pursued its own means of dealing with the divestiture issue. Says Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe (and one of the dozen or so men affiliated with the administration of Radcliffe), "The easiest thing for us to do would be what Harvard is doing. But instead we're cautiously trying to discover our own way to see if we can get a broader perspective...
...institution for undergraduates remains in doubt. Although its projects may be excellent, their bearing on undergraduate life seems minimal at best. Lyman admits that Radcliffe's programs seem more prominent outside the campus--"the freshman might not know we exist at all." She insists, however, that the Board is trying to concentrate on improving undergraduate life by building the athletic center at the Quad, channeling money into an Office for the Arts, and sponsoring speakers in a Radcliffe Forum program, among other efforts...
...most important influence of Radcliffe on undergraduate life, according to Lyman, is Horner's increased clout in policymaking decisions since the 1977 clarifying agreement. "We (the Board) are all here to support her, and Matina is heard. She's got to be heard." Horner now sits in on many of Harvard's policymaking committees--but she's quick to distinguish between policy-and decision-making. "Policy's not day-to-day management," she notes, "but it's now clearer that Radcliffe is not under Harvard but has an equal responsibility for its students...
Theoretically, Horner's argument makes sense: Radcliffe, unlike coeducational or single sex colleges, provides women with both a Harvard education and the added plus of the watchful and concerned eyes of the Board of Trustees--as well as their money. But as Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, said in his inaugural address, "Practical, not theoretical considerations determine the policy of the University." James B. Conant '14, president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, reaffirmed that stance in 1952 when he said, "Harvard is not coeducational in theory, only in practice...