Word: coeducationalized
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As the trend toward coeducation continued, the probability that Radcliffe women would not merely become Harvard women grew slimmer. Harvard's status has not been debatable at any time in the history of the relationship between the two schools. The status of Radcliffe, on the other hand, has always been...
THE TREND toward coeducation really began during World War II, out of nothing less than sheer necessity. The War had so depleted Harvard enrollment that merging most educational facilities became the only pragmatic financial arrangement for Harvard.
Until 1943, Radcliffe had hired all of its own professors, with the approval of Harvard. These were all Harvard instructors, but Radcliffe paid them separately and they taught their women students in the Radcliffe Yard. But in 1943, Wilbur K. Jordan, Radcliffe's new president, made the first moves toward...
Opening Hilles Library to men in the Fall of 1966 was another breakthrough in what had become a trend toward coeducation. The following September, the University abolished separate registration, and that Spring women were finally admitted to Lamont Library. Complete merger appeared inevitable.
The non-merger merger that went into effect in June 1971 is renewable after four years. In June 1975 Radcliffe can recover its holdings, a move that will be virtually impossible since the school would have to reabsorb its debts and face a University for which coeducation has become a...