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When the wheelers and dealers who brokered the merger between Radcliffe College and Harvard University in 1998 envisioned a new Radcliffe, they imagined a world-class institute for advanced study that would be influential and powerful at both at Harvard and in the world of academia as a whole...
...large group of possible supporters are equally interested in participating in Harvard’s development efforts, even though those women who graduated before 1977 can only be solicited by Radcliffe for funds —a decades old technicality that was maintained in the 1998 merger agreement...
...Much of the 1998 merger agreement was negotiated in secret, and even though then acting Dean Mary Maples Dunn crisscrossed the county in the wake of the merger to explain what the new Radcliffe Institute would be doing, many alumnae say they are still confused...
...infamous “non-merger merger” was brokered between Harvard and Radcliffe in 1977, granting formal responsibility for female undergraduates to Harvard. Harvard and Radcliffe agreed to collaborate on fundraising from new alumnae, but only Radcliffe would be able to solicit money from those who graduated before...
...merger, overseen by University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, the fundraising agreement remained...