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When Matina S. Horner picked up this year's guide to Harvard and Radcliffe for perspective students a feeling of irritation crept over her. It was page 22 of the booklet that did it: "No longer separate in admissions, dormitories, classrooms, and the granting of diplomas, Radcliffe College is now in many ways more an idea than an institution." The guide is, after all, an official Harvard-Radcliffe publication and Horner had expected it to represent Radcliffe fairly...
...Horner marched in to an Admissions Committee meeting that week and explained to them--as she had to literally hundreds of people over the past few years--that Radcliffe is a separate institution that owns $50 million worth of property, governs itself and draws up contracts with Harvard University. And she, Matina Souretis Horner, age 37, is that institution's duly appointed, independent president. Admissions committee members said afterwards that they found the meeting to be most informative...
...incident which occurred this month points to an uncomfortable theme in the Radcliffe administration: as Horner enters her fifth year as president and dean of Radcliffe, no one, not even Radcliffe's governing board, is sure what she is supposed to do and where the institution is supposed to be heading...
When the Radcliffe trustees appointed Horner to the college's presidency she was heralded by the press and national educational and women's organizations. She had written extensively on women in higher education--her fear-of-success hypothesis--which magazines gave wide and favorable coverage to. At 32, Radcliffe's youngest president was described as vivacious, articulate, charming and intellectual; she seemed the perfect figure to lead Radcliffe as it neared the end of its first 100 years...
...Horner may not have had all the administrative credentials necessary to run the corporate affairs of Radcliffe--she now admits that "coming from an assistant professorship in Psychology is not the best preparation for leading a corporation"--but it was obvious to all concerned that with a little help she would catch on quickly. Her youth and inexperience only added to the ceremonial excitement...