Word: mergers
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Another major educational change was the inauguration of Joint Instruction for Radcliffe students. In a report to the Faculty, Buck stated that "this new plan grew out of a conviction that Harvard-Radcliffe relations at present are unsatisfactory." The merger, he believes, is a healthy compromise between complete divorce and outright coeducation...
Some Episcopalians and Presbyterians are fond of talking about a denominational merger-some green and pleasant future day; in Cincinnati, working unions have already taken place. In each case, the union was the result of simple, local logic...
...Steel's top brass drove out from Pittsburgh last week to the company's most famous plant, Homestead. It is the plant that Andrew Carnegie once owned, and it was the keystone of the great 1901 merger on which U.S. Steel was built. Now, half a century later, Chairman-President Ben Fairless and his aides came to witness another milestone: the pouring of Big Steel's one billionth ton of metal. Never before in world history had one company made as much; it was twice as much as all the mills in Russia had ever made...
Among the many minor inconveniences the proposed merger would cause, is the loss of a between classes study place. Now, in this period, students can step into a library, pull a book from the shelf and spend an hour or two on it. Without the divisional library he would have a choice of either taking a chance at Widener's front desk, with a fifteen minute wait, or going off to Lamont, with an incomplete collection. Radcliffe students, who now spend much of their time in the Emerson libraries, would not even have this alternative...
Morris and Morton noted three reasons against the merger...