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President Horner urged freshmen to "resist the pressure and temptation to make premature decisions...
...Horner said she hopes freshmen would not take Mark Twain's advice that it is "better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and dispel all doubt" too seriously...
Matina S. Horner, Radcliffe president does about as well as you might expect in filling her indefinite role. Though no one is entirely sure exactly what she does, she is extremely accessible, considering her high position, and she holds office hours twice a week in the morning for students who want to talk...
Theoretically, Horner's argument makes sense: Radcliffe, unlike coeducational or single sex colleges, provides women with both a Harvard education and the added plus of the watchful and concerned eyes of the Board of Trustees--as well as their money. But as Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, said in his inaugural address, "Practical, not theoretical considerations determine the policy of the University." James B. Conant '14, president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, reaffirmed that stance in 1952 when he said, "Harvard is not coeducational in theory, only in practice...
Eight hundred Radcliffe alumnae and guests sang "Happy Birthday" to Radcliffe as weekend festivities kicked off the year-long celebration of Radcliffe's centennial. President Horner said Radcliffe must continue "to provide the opportunity for higher education to women at Harvard and to promote women's higher education everywhere...