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MARY I. BUNTING (1960-1972)--Radcliffe Institutes a House system similar to Harvard's. In 1963, Harvard degrees are awarded to Radcliffe students and women are admitted to the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Four years later, Lamont Library is opened to Radcliffe students. In 1970, Harvard and Radcliffe hold their first joint commencement. The next year, Radcliffe and Harvard unity their House systems, and coeducational living begins...
During the semester, we laugh at grinds, as in "Ha! Ha! We're having a great time throwing snowballs but look at the grinds marching to Lamont to study for their hourlies in three weeks...
Come reading period, everyone stops laughing. Grinds' outrageous study habits serve to shame the rest of us who have barely cracked open our postmidterm reading. I ran into a friend in Lamont last weekend who had meticulously prepared 20 (count-em, 20) biology review pages in four colors. This did not make me laugh. This made me tense...
...talk to us, who are 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 observed, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...last December, that plan ran into unexpected opposition when the full Faculty overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on the University to use the property--located directly across the street from Widener and Lamont Libraries--for another library or to ease a shortage of faculty offices...