Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presumed fait accompli faltered as Radcliffe alumnae came to the defense of their alma mater. And Harvard die-hards came forward to reiterate the rudiments of their long-standing skepticism regarding merger. Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, subtly summed it all up: "The most brutal formulation of the problem of merger might mean achieving sexual diversity at the expense of other kinds of diversity...
...December 1970 a committee of Harvard and Radcliffe Governing Board members turned a proposal for institutional suicide into a mere suicide gesture. The committee recommended a new plan that, while technically a "non-merger," combined the two institutions but kept "Radcliffe" as a redefined if nominal administration...
...merger merger agreement can probably be best summed up by the redefinition of the Radcliffe administration. The pact specified that a dean of Radcliffe be appointed by the governing boards of Harvard and Radcliffe, and that the dean have administrative jurisdiction over the Schlesinger Library, the Radcliffe Institute, the Alumnae Office and the Office of Admissions and Financial...
...merger merger was financially, attractive to Radcliffe largely because Harvard absorbed all of the school's debts. But for Harvard's sake, the compromise neatly side-stepped the key issue--the total absorption of Radcliffe women into the Harvard mainstream, a situation many observes felt could only be brought about by the admission of equal numbers of both sexes...
Committee members who drew up the non-merger recommendation admitted freely that their proposal intentionally avoided the ratio issue--an admission that was not consonant with their report's repeated emphasis on "full and equal participation of Radcliffe students in the intellectual and social life of the University...