Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth president, Psychologist Matina Horner, 39, cited these observations as a low-water mark against which to measure Radcliffe's 100-year drive toward equality with Harvard. "The intriguing thing," says Horner, "is that we have been working out at the institutional level the very things that men and women are facing today in their relationships, such as power and control, autonomy and commitment, the clashing of priorities, and self-esteem...
...ladies. The school was chartered to offer women "equal access" to a Harvard education, but not until 1943 did Harvard, its enrollment reduced by the war, let most Radcliffe women into its classes. Harvard's undergraduate library remained closed to Cliffies until 1967; the first joint commencement of men and women was held in 1970. Declaring that "there is not enough trust, not enough respect" between the two colleges, Horner's predecessor, Biologist Mary Bunting, resigned her post...
Though Harvard had reluctantly agreed to lower the percentage of men in its student body from 80% to about 70%, that was still short of "equality." Many people doubted that Radcliffe's young, soft-spoken new "president would win further concessions, especially since Harvard's old guard feared that alumni donations would drop if more women replaced Harvard's sons. "I listened to the arguments very carefully," Horner recalls, "and finally said how interesting it was that all the evidence seemed to show that Harvard alumni had only male children...
Homer's barb, gently and cheerily spoken, had a telling point. In 1975 the admissions offices combined, and the two schools declared "there are no longer any limits on the number of women students who can be admitted." (The freshman class is now 65% men, 35% women...
...suited industrialists who stood with bowed heads, the unusual invocation by Detroit City Councilman David Eberhard was as right and natural as the Pledge of Allegiance. The prayer opened the weekly luncheon of the Economic Club of Detroit, the automobile capital of the world, and never before have the men who put the U.S. on wheels had more reason to seek divine intervention. Over the next half dozen years, the edgy managers of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors will need all the help they...