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...engendered a lot of self-doubt in black students that otherwise might not have been there. This self-doubt expresses itself in a lot of ways." She remembers a recruiting trip in 1974 when she met a prospective black freshwoman who said she wanted to major in applied math to "show all the white people that a black woman can be good in applied math...
Most of the women interviewed never got along with their proctors. One characterized hers as "totally unhelpful--he was always telling the girls to lose weight. He basically ignored us unless we were exceptionally good-looking. You have enough problems freshman year without that." A freshwoman who lived in a mixed entry conceded that her proctor had been a nice guy, but a complete loser when it came to dealing with eighteen-year-old women. "He was very popular with the guys in the dorm--mainly, I think, because they were flattered to drink beer and play touch football with...
...other women as friends, and because their presence as role models ("successful women") was often comforting. One proctor was a transactional analyst, another was breezing through Harvard Business School, another was at the Law School and loving it. Their proctees liked the maternal warmth and easygoing support. One freshwoman from Canaday said, "My proctor had just graduated from Radcliffe two years before, and she was very cynical about Harvard men. When we felt rejected and lonely she'd cheer us up with her own combination of feminism and experience. She did for us what most of the male proctors have...
...butterfly relay, the Radcliffe quartet of tri-capt. Maureen Murphy, Sato, Downey, and Sue Sawyer captured second, while Krendl, Borden, Downey, and freshwoman Carol Moore also copped a second place in the individual medley. Radcliffe took five thirds in the other relay events...
...Another freshwoman said that she hitched regularly last semester from Harvard to Radcliffe but that the crime wave has now put her back on her feet. "I don't care how late I am to my classes now -- it's better late than never," she said...