Word: matina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Matina Horner took on the presidency two years ago with a glittering vision of Radcliffe as it might be, the best of both worlds--a women's school that gives its students protection, strength and room to blossom in this sexist world, but also a co-ed school, with its obvious social, emotional and educational advantages. Opponents of merger feel that it is necessary to have the protection Radcliffe affords, to have an advocate for women's rights and a focus to keep them from being isolated within the male university. Harvard has shown so little concern for women...
...identity crisis of Radcliffe College once again became an issue this week, as Matina Horner pledged to the Radcliffe Alumnae Council that "the male bastion" institution of Harvard will not lure its younger, sister college into "submerger...
...Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, who has a more personal stake in the merger negotiations than anyone else on the committee since changes in the agreement could substantially change the nature...
...will be expected to have at least a conversational familiarity with Matina Horner's "fear of success" theories. Be able to refute the popular misconception that they developed out of research on Radcliffe students. Fear of failure is unrivaled as a dominant emotion at Harvard and it knows no distinctions of sex. In fact, failure is especially inadmissable for women, who should have an interest in dispelling the belief that Radcliffe women go on to become only well-educated housewives. Radcliffe women have reportedly left less of an imprint on the public arena than Vassar or Wellesley graduates, but this...
...January of my freshman year, The New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article by Matina Horner, president of Radcliffe. It contained the results of her "fear of success" studies, claiming that many women are afraid to be successful, afraid to compete with men. Her subjects, male and female college students, described successful women as neurotic, over-aggressive, and generally unhappy. Achievement in a man's world seemed to conflict with society's demand that women be "feminine," good mothers and wives, and never threaten...