Word: coeducationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COEDUCATION "is a crime before God and humanity, that the physiology protests against and that experience weeps over... It emasculates the boys, stunts the girls; makes semi-eunuchs of one sex and agenes of the other," --former Harvard professor E.H. Clark in his Sex in Education, published in 1874.
Recently students at Yale overwhelmingly supported admitting more women through a sex-blind admissions policy. In a recent petition circulated by the Yale College Council, 3016 students signed the following statement: "Yale should admit applicants without regard to sex and with a 40 per cent minimum proportion of either sex...
There has been no such clear concern on the part of Harvard with sex-blind admissions. Absent are the massive petition drives, meetings with corporation trustees, and face-to-face discussions with faculty, Administration, and alumni. Rather, the Harvard-Radcliffe student body seems to be content with a planned 2.5...
"Our two institutions resisted the temptation to follow national trends or to succumb to pressures, political, financial and Federal for complete coeducation total merger," she said. "They have thus given us an especially great opportunity for educational innovation.
In a series of meetings with administrators last week, most students said they favored sex-blind admissions. Mary Arnstein, special assistant to Yale President Kingman Brewster for coeducation, said. The University Committee on Coeducation--composed of students, faculty and administration representatives chosen by Brewster's staff-also endorsed sex-blind...