Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Busy availing herself of these Harvard facilities, the undergraduate woman rarely, if ever, encounters the institution that theoretically exists mainly for her sake: Radcliffe. Harvard and the daily life it offers are reality; Radcliffe is simply a symbol with a venerable name, a decrepit vessel steadily slipping into the sea...
But Radcliffe does have another definition beyond its identity as a meaningless name or a fond memory: it is a chartered corporation with a $16 million annual budget. Financially independent from Harvard, it is run by a 38-member Board of Trustees and is technically responsible for the education of...
And while the Harvard Board of Overseers and the Harvard Corporation have moved uncomfortably into the limelight because of the way it is handling investments in companies which operate in South Africa, Radcliffe has quietly pursued its own means of dealing with the divestiture issue. Says Burton I. Wolfman, administrative...
Horner also believes that Radcliffe's duty to fulfill its first mandate is not over yet. "If equal access to a Harvard education means becoming one of the boys--if it's an end and not a means--then that's not what we want. Radcliffe cannot be absorbed, assimilated...
Radcliffe officials cite the school's programs for undergraduates and its participation in the development of Harvard policy as sufficient justification for its identity as Harvard's college for undergraduate women. It admits that more modifications will be necessary if Radcliffe's rebound is to succeed. But administrators also believe...