Word: coeducationalized
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The reasons for abolishing coeducation at Harvard do not strictly follow the conventional line: that women take a man's eye off his homework. This is scarcely the problem at Harvard (even less so at Yale, where, as they say, the men are men and the women are too).
Nevertheless, coeducation at Harvard does deleteriously affect many men's attitudes toward the academic life. Men, whether from a sense of chivalry or from a threatened ego, tend to shy away from competition with females.
We have all seen the type in high school who prefers to impress the ladies with his athletic prowess than to demonstrate his ability in solving quadratic equations. Indeed, as the authors of the recent book Learning Together: a History of Coeducation in American Schools observed, sports programs were grafted...
Lastly, though, coeducation is ultimately an attempt at androgenization. Throughout their college lives, Harvard men and women are bombarded with the same set of stimuli, the same corpus of knowledge, the same objective approach to facts--a process which promotes the notion that men and women are essentially the same...
A preview of the larger problem is seen in the countless examples of male-female miscommunications that take place everyday in section meetings, on the pages of campus publications, and during dinner conversations. Imagine, considering the tensions it causes in simple verbal communication, the dangers coeducation must lead to in...