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Although the Board insists that its programs like the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America--the foremost library of its kind in the U.S.--indirectly affect undergraduates by educating those who teach at Harvard, undergraduates say they derive little warmth from that fire. The real question, they say, is whether Radcliffe, having virtually achieved its goal of opening a Harvard education to women, should now fold itself into the Harvard Corporation, Pembroke-Brown style, or at least disassociate itself and its programs from Harvard...
...Trustee who acknowledges the anomaly between the negative undergraduate perception of Radcliffe and the Board's insistence on its renewed vitality is Matina S. Horner, Radcliffe's president. "Before I became president, all I knew about Radcliffe was that as a teacher I got two sheets for grades at the end of the semester and all the grades for women went on one that said 'Radcliffe,'" she says. Horner believes Radcliffe's identity became even more confusing when coresidency was established in 1971, and as most Harvard opportunities opened to women. But she insists the fog has been clearing since...
Maybe so. The Board claims it has been working hard since 1977 to give Radcliffe a much-needed facelift. One obvious change in Radcliffe is a bureaucratic one. While the Harvard Corporation seems to prefer a low profile, the Radcliffe Trustees are actively soliciting student and community input. Student representatives attend the four annual Board meetings and the Board sends representatives to neighborhood council meetings in Cambridge, Susan Storey Lyman '49, chairman of the Board, says Radcliffe feels a strong need to avoid the "town-gown" problem characteristic of the relationship between Harvard and Cambridge. "We've learned from Harvard...
Radcliffe's Board of Trustees consciously tries to avoid imitating Harvard's two main administrative bodies. Unlike Harvard, Radcliffe prefers to nominate Trustees who will not need to travel large distances to get to meetings or who do not have very time-consuming jobs. Lyman, who like the other members of the board receives no compensation for her work, says, "It's a very expensive job, but there's work to be done. The Harvard Overseers just haven't got time to do the really gritty work...
Apparently, the work is at its grittiest now. For Radcliffe, financial independence means the freedom to develop some of the programs which suffered from 1971 to 1977, years Harvard had control of the purse strings. But financial freedom entails responsibility, too, and the Board is now saddled with the obligation of raising its own funds for endowment and capital improvement...