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...Faculty's classic tendency to cast suspicion on immoderate change contributed to its reluctance to move quickly on the merger. Co-residency struck some as an alarming and sudden breach with the past. Peterson and his fellow faculty members, he explains, "philosophically resisted these great shifts in tide...
Looking back, Peterson admits his alarmist views "were never justified." Most professors concur, but nevertheless believe if they had it to do over, they would have moved with the same caution. The Faculty members at the time recoiled from the dangers of what Peterson calls a "precipitous merger," contending that Harvard was not "prepared" for the allegedly grandiose reversals in University tides...
Radcliffe bears some responsibility for the changes in students. Like its students, Radcliffe lost humility--"the modesty and pride it had as a mistreated minority changed to arrogance." Why did the Radcliffe administration insist that the merger culminated 90 years of women's education? "If the administration had said 'we have got to meet economic pressure' I would not have one bit of criticism...
...topic returns to style. If economic necessity brought on the merger, it did not give Radcliffe an excuse for self-congratulations. If combined housing became necessary in 1970, the change could not defend a loss of civility. What matters is not life's changes but the way we react to them--"on what moral basis and with what style we meet the inevitable," Trilling said...
...arts at Harvard today began at Radcliffe under the directorship of a small, misnamed Office of Sports, Dance and Recreation. Until the merger in 1972, this office coordinated the few art programs that Harvard had--the very...