Word: mergers
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Strictly speaking, a "merger" between Harvard and Radcliffe would be a legal, corporate affair: Radcliffe would stop paying a fee to Harvard to cover the maintenance of its buildings and the billing of its students; it would sell its property to Harvard; and it would sink its endowment into Harvard's Nothing more...
...Comstock Notestein, whose leadership as Radcliffe's first full-time president set the stage for the historic 1947 Harvard-Radcliffe merger, died last week...
Indeed, Notestein was a pioneer and her achievements enduring; under the 1947 concordat for which she laid the groundwork, Radcliffe women were first admitted to the same classes attended by Harvard students. From the founding of Radcliffe in 1891 until the merger, the College had hired Harvard instructors to repeat their classes at Radcliffe...
Since 1947, Harvard and Radcliffe have moved ever closer to full merger, with Harvard degrees going to Radcliffe graduates in 1962 and the Houses becoming coed...
Cutbacks in the money requested for Harvard programs and uncertainty over the costs generated by the merger have left many problems that are being met on a day-to-day basis, Watson said...