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President Neil L. Rudenstine joined Lewis in proclaiming the occasion a "happy event" and described the dedication of the gate as a "coming of age" for the Yard...
...women at Harvard," Knowles said at the end of his brief remarks, holding a glass aloft. The audience responded in kind to the toast.CrimsonLinda S. CuckovichNANCY ZWENG '76 and KIM ADAMS '76, members of the first class of women to live in the Yard, pose in front of a gate dedicated to Co-Residency this weekend...
...about symbolism (with a little tangibility thrown in). In the midst of more complex problems not so easily solved, Harvard did it up right this weekend, honoring the principle of gender inclusivity and specifically the women who entered the Yard 25 years ago by dedicating a gate opposite the Science Center and devoting the afternoon to a celebration of Harvard's alumnae, faculty and students. The cynics among us might argue that the Celebration was Harvard's way of deflecting attention from the need for more tenured women faculty and from the recent tensions with Radcliffe...
...needed this celebration. We needed the opportunity to create a concrete (or, in this case, brick, stone and iron) memorial to the trailblazers of the Class of 1976, a memorial which also anticipates a renewed effort on the part of the College to strengthen the role of women. The gate dedicated Saturday now boasts two plaques, one recognizing the anniversary 25 years ago, when women first moved into the Yard, and the other quoting the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet: "I came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners at which my heart rose...
...audience at the dedication, seated and standing on the lawn between the Science Center and the gate, coped good-naturedly with the rain which fell briefly during the ceremony and joined in a fairly tuneless but certainly enthusiastic rendition of the revised "Fair Harvard." The panels which followed (if all were as enlightening as the Journalism and Media panel moderated by Jill Abramson '76) accomplished in small what Harvard needs more of in large: female role models sharing their career and life experiences with undergraduates, providing resources, reassurance and inspiration. For further inspiration, the College published a commemorative booklet...