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Many people claim that acceptance is enough, that Radcliffe's achievement of getting its students full status as Harvard undergraduates in 1977 ended the necessity of the institution. I don't deny the assertion that for a long time just getting the women through the gate was the main goal. I have spoken to many alumnae and read a number of documents which agree with this statement. However, like any equal rights movement in history, Radcliffe's movement to educate women has had to raise its expectations as times changed and as its movement gained more success...
Here is an item from Peterman's "Owner's Manual" No. 72, Fall '98: "Sir Rupert met him just beyond the gate of Penworth House. At first he thought he recognized the man. An old mate from Rugby ...No, that would have been foolish. MI5 wouldn't have chanced it. Not like this anyway. Still, the man had the right look about him. The windowpane blazer. Nicely non-bureaucratic." Windowpane Blazer. $225. Too much Bond, I think--a little over the top. So is this, from the same catalog: "Fabiana whistled for the stable boy. He came. She whipped...
When they get to the game or match, they can just swipe their card through a special gate...
...date draws near, some custodians of San Francisco's landmarks are having second thoughts about being the theater of action for the four-day exercise, and last week the Presidio, a national park near the Golden Gate Bridge, withdrew permission to use its Baker Beach as a landing site. Something about 400 Marines storming up the shore with 20 five-ton trucks and two dozen 14-ton assault vehicles, and then engaging in pitched battle -- albeit simulated -- on the grounds didn't jibe with the Presidio's more family-oriented mandate as a national park. Undaunted, the best and bravest...
...Harvard admitted women...." In other words, the whole thing was expected to be a temporary expedient, at the end of which Radcliffe would give back the winnings, if any, and Radcliffe agreed to this. No so surprising, since most experts agree that just getting the women through the gate was the main goal...