Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the hardiest CRIMSON editors usually manage to leave the newsroom on Saturday night. But we always try to stay on top of the news, and sometimes the news can't wait for the next regular issue. And so when the Radcliffe Council started talking about merger on Saturday afternoon, a handful of editors started working on an extra on Saturday night. By Sunday morning they were exhausted, but the extra was there to tell you what happened...
Last Saturday's decision by the Radcliffe College council to initiate merger talks with Harvard has made the union of the schools inevitable, but the wedding day may still be some time away...
Talk of the merger, of course, is nothing new: Radcliffe's original charter contained a clause hinting at the eventual absorption of the college by Harvard, and officials of the two schools have informally explored the possibility during the past decade...
...however, the two highest governing bodies of Radcliffe have publicly committed themselves to pursuing a merger, and--given the current student interest in the topic--backing out would be embarassing, to say the least...
Radcliffe's proposal is sure to be accepted by Harvard. The University has long subsidized its step-daughter, and a formal merger would only wipe out the myriad minor annoyances resulting from the fiction that Radcliffe lives apart from Harvard...