Word: males
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First lesson, pressure for governing bodies that reflect the diversity of the people your organization serves. For 350 years Harvard has had only white, gentile men run its University, except for two white, male Jews who have served on the seven-man governing corporation...
...fall of 1976, five years after the decision to go forward with coeducational living, the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices merged. As Class of 1980 applications rolled in, admissions officers began looking at the old forms in a new way; male or female, your chances were the same...
...houses, things were very different. The doors to rooms in North House bear mute testimony to the old way of life. On almost every door hangs a 6-in. hook, which, legend says, young Radcliffe students had to use as a door prop whenever they had a male visitor. After all, no young lady could have her door closed with a man in the room. Today, male and female North House students pry the hooks off their doors as mementos of a bygone...
Although many of the 241 women who graduated in the spring of 1961 now say they later realized that they had not had all of the opportunities as the male undergraduates, most of them took their status at Radcliffe for granted. "I didn't feel like a second-class citizen, but I think I was," says Mary Catherine Bateson '61. Virginia Rogers Patterson '61, who lives in Philadelphia and has raised five children, agrees: "We were used to being second string...
...basic set-up was such that women were second-class citizens," says Maryland resident Shelley Pallay Levi '61. At that time, Radcliffe students lived in dormitories with house mothers while their tutors lived in the Harvard houses with the male undergraduates. "Not having the tutors around made a difference in the intellectual quality of our lives," says Levi, now a travel consultant in the Washington, D.C. area...