Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burr says a full merger this year is "extremely improbable" and that "we don't want to let Radcliffe get swallowed up into Harvard if it is much smaller." The idea seems to be that given the choice between a Harvard that includes a womens' institution and one that is overwhelmingly male, women here would choose the former...
...Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the person ultimately in charge of the teaching of all male and female undergraduates, who like Bok has never made a public statement on merger...
...there is not strict division of opinion along Harvard-Radcliffe lines--largely because the Radcliffe contingent has secured complete agreement that for the moment, Radcliffe is an institution worth preserving. "There are differing views," Belin says, "but the Radcliffe representatives feel it would be premature to have a full merger, that there's not enough to be gained...
...Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, who has a more personal stake in the merger negotiations than anyone else on the committee since changes in the agreement could substantially change the nature...
...unlikeliness of merger, though, does not mean that the Joint Policy Committee will opt for the other extreme and move Harvard and Radcliffe farther apart. Steiner says that while the committee has three broad options--separating Harvard and Radcliffe, moving them closer together or staying with the present arrangement--it is generally "moving in the direction of one institution...