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...merger of Harvard and Radcliffe. The merger dissolved the 120-year-old Radcliffe College, created the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and brought female undergraduates fully into the Harvard fold. Knowles and Mary Maples Dunn, who became the first acting dean of the Institute, hammered out one of the merger??s most contentious questions, whether Radcliffe would have its own tenured faculty or a collection of visiting scholars. He was a key player in a deal that was never a fait accompli...
This principle of openness assumed enormous significance in 1977, when Radcliffe College delegated to Harvard responsibility for management of the undergraduate affairs of women students. That “non-merger merger?? was subsequently the subject of varied interpretations by the Radcliffe and Harvard administrations, but in Archie’s mind there was only one way to understand the language: everything open to men had to be open to women. Every group except the Final Clubs eventually accepted that principle, and in the course of that transition Harvard became, in a very few years, a fully coeducational...
According to W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., Kirby worked diligently to realize the merger??and keep him from leaving Harvard for Princeton earlier this year...
...traditionally all-male Yard became coed in the fall of 1972 after Harvard and Radcliffe signed a “merger non-merger?? agreement in June 1971, but the merger also bought the Radcliffe College dorms into Harvard College’s House system...
According to Patricia Albjerg Graham, who negotiated the deal for Radcliffe, two main issues dominated the 1977 “non-merger merger??—the abolition of admissions quotas on women and maintenance of a separate endowment for Radcliffe, which she says Harvard wanted to take...