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According to former Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28, who worked with Bunting-Smith from 1960 to 1971, the Institute was representative of her vision of Radcliffe.
These ideas led to a litany of notable and lasting accomplishments during Bunting-Smith's tenure as president. Early on, she made clear that Harvard's conception of a separate but equal education for Radcliffe women was not truly pro- viding an equivalent learning mechanism for herstudents.
One element that Bunting-Smith saw lacking inthe Radcliffe education was the Harvard-styleHouse system. "'Cliffies" at the time did notenjoy the close relationships with Faculty andstaff that Harvard men did by living in such closequarters.
To remedy the situation, Bunting-Smith set up aseparate House system at the Radcliffe Quadrangle.She combined the eight dorms into three Houses,North, South and East, and then built a fourthHouse on the West side of the Quad, later to berenamed Currier.
"She painted the doors of the houses differentcolors," Donovan recalls of Bunting-Smith's quirkystyle. "Some people saw that as silly, but it wasvery visible and sort of fun."