Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe yesterday declared her own demise as an autonomous institution and will propose merger with Harvard to the Corporation before its March 3 meeting...
Yesterday's merger recommendation follows a trend toward total coeducation that really began only out of necessity during World War II. Even then, it was a man--Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan--who had to make the first moves. In 1943, coeducational classes began when Harvard agreed to assume responsibility for all instruction and Radcliffe agreed to split its tuition with Harvard...
Neither would merger give much immediate hope of expanding Radcliffe's enrollment to a more reasonable ratio with Harvard. Class places for Harvard freshmen are not likely to be reduced, so that any increase in the number of girls will mean expansion of the college...
...even if coed living were not approved, merger has some graces beyond corporate finance. The end of cross-corporate billing for interhouse meals should allow freer dining; combining scholarship endowments would hugely increase Radcliffe's small scholarship fund...
...even if both administrations give blessing to the idea of merger and coed housing, the greatest problems remain in reconciling firmly held practices of both colleges. Mrs. Bunting has opposed segregating freshmen by dorm, and would not likely compromise to the practice. Radcliffe students will be loathe to give up the approachability of their present administration, the autonomy of R.U.S., and representation on the disciplinary Judicial Board. In a university where inaccessible decision-making is a major grievance, even the most adamant incorporationists will discover they have non-negotiable demands to make of Harvard before they join it freely...