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"My overwhelming impression of him was that he was a very gracious and pleasant person," recalls Romanos. "He was a little put off by all the attention that he received, but he was very open to me, a young artist just starting out."
Writing with the clarity of hindsight, I may have conveyed the impression we were unhappy with the status quo. Did we rail against the second-class status of women intelligent enough to attend the world's most prestigious university?
"Their answers, we reasoned, should reflect two things: first, Radcliffe's particularly warped impression of this vital modern creature, and second, the extent to which the information that the Harvard man passed along at Radcliffe corresponded with that he passed to us," the editors wrote.
"My first impression of Harvard upon registration in Mem Hall was 'what a mob scene--just like the Army:' hundreds of veterans mostly still in army suntans and the place filled with registration tables like an army mess hall," wrote David L. McMurtrie '50 in a letter describing the crowds...
"I had the impression that he was very deeply affected by what we told him," says Schelling, who is currently Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. "I would say it was somewhat emotionally charged because they were all people who had considered him a friend and a colleague...