Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wild Gambles. By 1970 Franklin was beginning to suffer steadily declining operating earnings. Last May the situation had become so bad that its managers concluded that the only way the bank could survive was through a merger. Then Chairman Harold Gleason got devastating news: Franklin had lost some $39 million because of un authorized trading in foreign currencies...
...kind of women the Harvard Admissions Office would accept as undergraduates, if women's admissions were Harvard's responsibility. Now that it's been said, this worries me, too. It hints at a whole can of worms that has barely been opened in the discussion surrounding the possible merger of Harvard and Radcliffe...
There are really two underlying issues in the proposed merger--the quantity and the quality of Harvard's commitment to educating women. As to the quantity of that commitment, there is nothing more to be said. The fact that in 1974, equal admissions is still a matter of debate rather than policy ought to make Harvard hide its face in shame. And as to Alberta Arthur's statement that equal access "will not change dramatically the number of women in the class"--that's simply not the case. Within two years of the start of sex-blind admissions...
...WHAT THE MERGER essentially means is that we will all live under the generic name of Harvard. Now "Harvard" has a neatness of form that "Harvard-Radcliffe" undeniably lacks. It makes better copy, and far be it from me to deny the importance of that. Nor do I doubt that the corresponding "administrative complications" of hyphenation to which Rosovsky refers are many and awkward. But these are awkward times in which we live, and they call for more profound redress than a civil ceremony can provide...
...attempt to involve the people most affected by its policies, or even--by acknowledging that its policies, really do affect people--to intensify the limited discussion it encourages. Instead, Harvard does its best to trivialize or obscure important issues, just as it dickers over the mechanics of Harvard-Radcliffe merger while its admissions and financial aid offices go on discriminating against women. Students dissatisfied with trivialized discussion have to create their own forums, and they sometimes have to act dramatically to make them viable...