Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just two years ago when Harvard generously considered merging with Radcliffe, Radcliffe bit her nails in expectation. An overwhelming majority of undergraduate women polled at that time-380 out of 400-cast eager eyes on the prospect of merger. Some were simply tired of deciding if they were Radcliffe students who went to school at Harvard or Harvard students who lived at Radcliffe. Many felt that Radcliffe had no real identity apart from Harvard anyway; Radcliffe was merely an embarrassing anachronism that should be wiped...
...undergraduate support of merger was coed living. Students favored merger primarily as a means to full coeducation. Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, said at the time, "We all know that President Pusey said there would be no coeducation without merger...
...want to have to wait two years for finalization of merger," complained one student at the time...
...coed living experiment"-as it has since been called-which took place second semester of last year, was the result of repeated student agitation. Predictably, as men moved to Radcliffe and women moved to Harvard, the undergraduate push for merger relaxed. Students didn't seem to care anymore if Harvard and Radcliffe were legally married, as long as they were having an affair...
...years later, as they awaken to find Radcliffe giving more and more of herself to Harvard, many Radcliffe students are viewing the work of their trustees-the so-called "non-merger" merger-with a blend of suspicion, anger, and despair...