Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horner's concerns run the gamut of issues affecting women and are hardly limited to the fate of female undergraduates at Harvard. Last year she had to wrestle with more general problems of Radcliffe's budget and of the 1971 non-merger contract defining the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. Yet she also found time to initiate several privately-funded research projects she hopes will have national repercussions. Her lack of public visibility left many women confused by her priorities and disappointed by her performance. The deluge of new appointments over the spring and summer, however, reveals more clearly what Horner...
...merger merger was financially attractive to Radcliffe: Harvard absorbed all of its debts. But for Harvard's sake, the compromise side-stepped the key issue--the total absorption of Radcliffe women into the Harvard mainstream, a situation that many observers felt could only be brought about by the admission of equal numbers of both sexes...
...fact, male faculty and administrators had feared a legal merger would eventually require a one-to-one male-to-female ratio...
Committee members who drew up the non-merger recommendation admitted freely that their proposal intentionally avoided the ratio issue--which was not in keeping with their report's repeated emphasis on "full and equal participation of Radcliffe students in the intellectual and social life of the University...
...merger merger that went into effect in June 1971 is renewable after four years. In June 1975 Radcliffe can recover its holdings, a move that will be virtually impossible since the school would have to reabsorb its debts and face a University for which coeducation has become a way of life...