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...With the same lack of awareness that leads them to believe that Radcliffe students pay a different tuition than Harvard students, they have never fully absorbed the fact that Harvard has been educating men and women in the same classrooms, sections and tutorials since 1943 As Radcliffe President Matina Horner says, Harvard professors don't view Radcliffe women as potential competitors for, and inheritors of, their academic chairs...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: It's Tough to Be a Woman at Harvard | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...will be expected to have at least a conversational familiarity with Matina Horner's "fear of success" theories. Be able to refute the popular misconception that they developed out of research on Radcliffe students. Fear of failure is unrivaled as a dominant emotion at Harvard and it knows no distinctions of sex. In fact, failure is especially inadmissable for women, who should have an interest in dispelling the belief that Radcliffe women go on to become only well-educated housewives. Radcliffe women have reportedly left less of an imprint on the public arena than Vassar or Wellesley graduates, but this...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: It's Tough to Be a Woman at Harvard | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...professional woman--even without that degree. Professional, because Harvard fosters situations in which you will feel as if you represent something larger than yourself: an embodiment of all womanhood. Radcliffe administrators know this feeling more intimately than we students. It defines the crucial difference between Presidents Bok and Horner: Both are full time administrators, fund-raisers, and general top dogs, but only she is a full-time advocate...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: It's Tough to Be a Woman at Harvard | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...instance, the Office of Women's Education (OWE)--one of President Horner's major visible accomplishments of her first year in office--is, very simply, your friend. Headed by Judith Walzer and staffed by Connie Gersick and Shannon Randall, the office is Radcliffe's built-in insurance that administrators and students will not stare at each other across a gap, but will regularly interact...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: It's Tough to Be a Woman at Harvard | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...January of my freshman year, The New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article by Matina Horner, president of Radcliffe. It contained the results of her "fear of success" studies, claiming that many women are afraid to be successful, afraid to compete with men. Her subjects, male and female college students, described successful women as neurotic, over-aggressive, and generally unhappy. Achievement in a man's world seemed to conflict with society's demand that women be "feminine," good mothers and wives, and never threaten...

Author: By Beth Stephens, | Title: The Battle Begins Here | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

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