Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women at Harvard and of Harvard in this sexist society is not merely extrapolation from disconnected experiences. It is consciously taught to us by our "teachers," our predecessors. This year the idea of female inferiority was more clearly articulated than ever before, chiefly because of the issues of merger of Harvard and Radcliffe and equal enrollment of women and men. President Pusey said that we could not have equal enrollment because of our duty to the nation to provide leaders. Last Fall, Dean Watson told me that I was so enthusiastic about merger because I didn't realize how much...
...report opposed merger because it would inevitably lead to a change in the male-female ratio...
...particular concerns we feel is that...the act of merger would stimulate the forces of change, and that, although at present there is no illegality in controlling such a ratio, it would be increasingly difficult to do so. The 4 to 1 ratio in admission of men and women has drawn little comment in the past because it represented essentially the housing capacity of the separate institutions...
Whether or not merger between Harvard and Radcliffe occurs there is another question concerning women which Harvard must face. This is the participation of women in the upper levels of the University-the Faculty and the Administration...
...YEAR and a half ago, Radcliffe's proposal of merger was eagerly anticipated by most of the Harvard-Radcliffe community. The merger was to be an easy and straightforward move-to be accomplished by this Fall. Since then, the issue has become bogged down in a morass of some hard-headed Harvard administrators, professors, and confused and worried alumnae and alumni. Some form of merger probably will pass eventually, but whether anyone presently enrolled in the Colleges will be around to see it is a moot point...