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...community. It was Radcliffe which brought Harvard professors down Garden Street to teach classes to the best and brightest of women students, Radcliffe whose presence eventually caused Harvard to make classes coeducational and to allow women to live in the Yard and Houses. Female undergraduates today study in Lamont without a second thought, but our freedom of access to that library was forged by the integration of Radcliffe women in 1967. Radcliffe's influence on the role of women at Harvard should be indelibly marked on the University's history...
Women may have been taking classes with men, but studying was a single-sex activity at Lamont Library for Harvard undergraduates since its grand opening in 1949. Women had access to Hilles Library in the Radcliffe Quadrangle, but the trek proved quite a hassle in the middle...
...fall 1966, when Hilles was undergoing renovations, women were admitted to Lamont for a two-week period. The trial demonstrated--as least to some--that male and female students would both be able to use Lamont resources without "distracting" each other (a common fear) and without depleting the reserve bookshelf, the potential out-come that many men gave as their reason for opposition...
Women were given full permission to use Lamont on Monday, Feb. 6, 1967. Two librarians greeted the first woman to walk in with a picture of President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation...
...years after the doors of Lamont were opened to women, Harvard was willing to merge with its sibling. But Radcliffe was no longer so easily convinced...