Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Possibly the uninspiring discussions on the merger put Marquand and his colleagues to sleep. Only one thing do Faculty members clearly recall about the debates--they were dull. Chase N. Peterson, then Harvard's director of the admissions and financial aid and now vice-president at the University of Utah, says no one was "exceptionally passionate." Back then the Faculty had more passion-inducing issues than the fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later...
...eight months after the bust the Faculty still had not bothered to act on the merger and merger proponents were getting sick of waiting around. The Radcliffe Quarterly ran an editorial in December 1969, chastizing professorial lethargy on the merger. "The Faculty on Arts and Sciences has seemed in no hurry to put the merger on its agenda," the editorial criticized...
...With the merger committee apparently out of commission, Ernest R. May, professor of History and Dean of the College, tried once more to prod the Faculty toward resolving the merger issue in the winter of '69-'70. He opened the floor of the Faculty meeting in February to debate on the merger, but few could think of anything substantial to say. So Constable moved to set up a merger committee. Or so the Faculty minutes claim. Constable doesn't remember this either...
Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and then member of a committee on the admissions and financial aid aspects of the merger, did not believe in hasty Faculty action either. He advised that all decisions on future relationships between Harvard and Radcliffe "be deferred until all considerations pro and con from both communities have been heard." Bunting also opposed the Faculty making a decisive statement on the merger. "It would be premature for this Faculty to take any action at this time that would limit the options," she warned...
...Faculty finally closed the meeting by passing a resolution supporting the principle of coeducation--not a huge concession, considering the Faculty had been teaching co-ed classes since the 1940's. But they backed off from wholehearted support of the merger, claiming it would be imprudent to take a stand until they fully examined the implications of what they referred to as "the irrevocable merger." The vote also required--by the end of the spring term--that their rerun merger committee study on the findings of the four administrative merger committees. The Faculty never heard from them again...