Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most brutal formulation of this problem," Dean Ford said recently, "is that a merger might mean achieving sexual diversity at the expense of other kinds of diversity." Ford added that it is not yet clear how much money would be needed to bring Radcliffe scholarships up to the level of Harvard's; a study on that question will probably be ready by the Faculty's April meeting...
...other hand, a free competition for 1500 places in the Harvard-Radcliffe freshman class would be sure to reduce the number of male graduates, and such a reduction, say several Faculty members, is "unthinkable." One administrator in fat has predicted that the merger will not be approved if the four to one ratio is changed, without a concurrent expansion of the College. And expanding the College, to judge by the Gill Committee's recommendation that Mather House be used instead for deconversion and the Wolff Committee's more recent conclusion that the size of the graduate school be reduced...
...traditionalists will claim. That line of argument has an ugly elitist ring to the large number of people around Harvard who think the University should be reforming rather than playing ball with the establishment. Perhaps the issue can be glossed over with a compromise, but probably not. Thus the merger involves much more than bringing boys and girls together in the Houses--it could force a very fundamental debate on Harvard's purposes...
...REST of the difficulties with a merger are a good deal more prosaic. How, for instance, can 800-900 Harvard undergraduates be persuaded to move up a Radcliffe? Perhaps enthusiasm for the idea of coed living will carry a few pioneers up to the inferior quarters at the 'Cliffe and the first two male freshmen stuck in a double in Briggs won't know what hit them. But already a number of House Masters sense a large gap between the number of Harvard students who support coeducational living in theory and the number who would be willing to move...
...substantial number of Harvard undergraduates (somewhere between 10 and 50 per cent) would prefer to live in all-male houses, and it seems to be assumed that after the merger some of the Harvard Houses and perhaps a complex of Radcliffe dorms would remain unmixed. The problem of providing what Dean Ford calls 'a dignified choice," between the two kinds of housing will have to be worked out though, as well the difficulty of determining which houses go coed and which stay all-male House assignments have always been somewhat arbitrary and when some of the living quarters become clearly...