Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard equivalent of a Chinese May Day celebration. During the last weekend in September, for instance, the big guns of the administration spoke to the annual meeting of the representatives of the Harvard College Fund and revealed the most complete version to date of the Party Line on merger and admissions...
...news of the September Fund meeting was that everybody--only stating their personal opinions, of course--came out for what they like to call "equal access" admissions. Dean Rosovsky also said he personally favors full Harvard-Radcliffe merger, and President Bok, asked about it later, agreed that speaking for himself merger did seem like a good idea...
None of this came as any great surprise to veteran administration-watchers, because the administration has been inching toward equal access and merger in its speeches to alumni for about a year. Last fall, Bok started to hint that equal access might be a good idea, although he resolutely refused to endorse it, and both admissions deans came out strongly for equal access. Speeches to alumni began to focus almost exclusively on the role of women in the University, with the personal opinions being more strongly stated with each with each succeeding alumni conference. All of these announcements are important...
Rosovsky's candid remarks about merger and his hesitency to consider alterations in male enrollment are typical of the attitudes of many Harvard administrators, alumni and faculty members: They aren't really concerned about the technicalities of the corporate relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, but are more wary of efforts to equalize male-female enrollment by decreasing the male population here...
This attitude was underscored repeatedly by members of the fund, who were in town last weekend to kick off the annual fund drive. Rosovsky's were practically the only statements made about merger, and even they came in response to questions about the threat of a drop in male admissions...