Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major reasons that Faculty members and Harvard administrators cite against merger are ratio and finances. The primary concern of women opposed to merger is the question of a continuing commitment to education for women...
...administrator most vocal in his opposition to more women at Harvard-and his opposition to merger-is Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid for Harvard College. In a report he wrote as chairman of a Faculty subcommittee to study the admissions and financial aid aspects of merger, Peterson argued against more women by citing the admissions policy he helped form...
...does not consider the possibility that Harvard might have a responsibility to educate the women of those groups as well. If the present Harvard undergraduate body is a more diverse group than Radcliffe's, it stems from Radcliffe's smaller scholarship fund-a deficiency that would be ameliorated after merger...
Many faculty members feel that the ratio question is the most important one about merger, but Mrs. Bunting, a strong proponent of merger, has not seen it as such. "The feeling that the ratio would be changed much doesn't have a high priority with me-nor with Radcliffe students." she said last week. She said that pressure might come from Harvard students who want an equal ratio in the Houses. "Our principal job right now is to fix this place up for the women who are here," she said...
ANOTHER item of concern for those opposed to merger is money. Although both Harvard and Radcliffe have financial problems at the moment, Radcliffe's are much worse than Harvard's. Radcliffe was in the middle of a campaign to raise $30 million when negotiations for merger were announced in February 1969. This discouraged many alumnae from giving until they know what the future status of Harvard and Radcliffe would be. Radcliffe, however, has always had fewer resources than Harvard, and for this reason its schol-arship program has suffered. Were the two Colleges to merge financially, Harvard would have...