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...Women had moved into Harvard classrooms in 1943, but it wasn’t until 1967 that they were allowed in Lamont Library. By 1970 Harvard and Radcliffe had held their first joint Commencement ceremony, and in a 1971 “non-merger merger” agreement, Harvard absorbed responsibility for Radcliffe’s finances. In 1975, for the first time, admissions officers began admitting female students to both Harvard and Radcliffe. And in 1977, Harvard officially took full responsibility for women’s undergraduate education and student life...
...Sexism wasn’t as blatant as it had been in the days that women weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom in Lamont,” says Natalie Wexler ’76, a former Crimson executive. “But I was often the only woman in section. My Ec 10 section leader would start section by talking about football scores with all the guys. I never felt like I was really a part of the conversation, that I was really getting the whole section. I could not bring myself to open my mouth...
...sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
Additionally, Lamont University Professor Emeritus John T. Dunlop will serve as a senior adviser...
...Board of Overseers convened in Lamont Library to hear a presentation on a new interdisciplinary degree program. Shortly before lunch, they filed the short distance to Loeb House for another event: an update on the presidential search. Now Stone and the rest of the committee had nine names to present. Fineberg, Bollinger, Sullivan, Summers, Gutmann, and four others. The next day, committee members crossed the river and met with Clark in his business school office, breaking the news to him that he was no longer under consideration...