Word: likes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calls a few "curmudgeonly old misogynists"--many professors worried that the push to balance the ratio could force a decrease in the number of male applicants accepted. Reducing the male student body spelled disaster to Pusey who declared at the February Faculty meeting: "Call this male chauvinist if you like. There are many people here who would be unhappy to see the number of men reduced." Peterson had gloomier predictions, if Harvard reduced male admissions, he prophesied "such heightened frustrations and negative feedback as might literally destroy the richness of our applicant pool, our national schools committee apparatus...
...Diana Trilling had her way, we would all behave like ladies and gentlemen. Rehearsals and practices would end at the dinner hour. We would eat together, make polite conversation, and retire for coffee in the common room...
Radcliffe bears some responsibility for the changes in students. Like its students, Radcliffe lost humility--"the modesty and pride it had as a mistreated minority changed to arrogance." Why did the Radcliffe administration insist that the merger culminated 90 years of women's education? "If the administration had said 'we have got to meet economic pressure' I would not have one bit of criticism...
...members of the Harvard community, and at the same time provided them unprecedented freedom to interact responsibly with Harvard men. This stands in sharp contrast to the parietal system, where women lived in a structure designed to check up on their social lives. As Rosenblum says, "It was just like high school...
After two miles, an unusually large pack consisting of almost 20 runners led the field. No one seemed willing to break open the pack and set himself up. "It's like being thrown to the wolves if you try to take the lead in a situation like that," McNulty said following the meet...