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Hall says that she was “surprised” and a “little sad” to see Radcliffe College dissolved in the 1999 merger...
...same year, a “non-merger merger” officially put Harvard in charge of the dorm life of Radcliffe women, and the class of 1977 was the second class whose women were integrated into both the Houses and the first-year dorms...
...Cliffies were less socioeconomically diverse than their Harvard counterparts, because the school had a smaller endowment and less funding for financial aid. So in 1977, in their second “non-merger merger” agreement, Harvard agreed to pick up the tab for more than half of Radcliffe’s financial...
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...
...trick was to hang onto the endowment until the vision emerged, and it took 25 years,” Graham says, referring to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study that formed after the final 1999 merger...