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Harvard administrators are mourning the loss of Mary I. Bunting-Smith, who used the University as a platform to revolutionize the role of women in society.
Bunting-Smith, the fifth president of Radcliffe College, died on Wednesday at the age of 87 in her home in Hanover, New Hampshire.
During her tenure as president from 1960 to 1972, Bunting-Smith worked to integrate women into Harvard University, introduced the house system to Radcliffe and raised funds for the construction of Hilles Library and Currier House.
"She has an extraordinary and unique talent and phenomenal insight into the human condition," said Florence Ladd, an author and former head of the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.
Barbara Grossman, a past Bunting Fellow, drama professor at Tufts and a member of the National Council on the Arts, said she was "struck by [Smith's] willingness to use herself, her body and her passion, as the bridge to touch us, to move us and to galvanize us into...