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...Faculty finally closed the meeting by passing a resolution supporting the principle of coeducation--not a huge concession, considering the Faculty had been teaching co-ed classes since the 1940's. But they backed off from wholehearted support of the merger, claiming it would be imprudent to take a stand until they fully examined the implications of what they referred to as "the irrevocable merger." The vote also required--by the end of the spring term--that their rerun merger committee study on the findings of the four administrative merger committees. The Faculty never heard from them again...
...Pusey apparently had wearied of Faculty committees and their disappearing acts. A week after the February faculty non-debate/debate, he pushed the June 30, 1969 merger deadline forward, explaining, "This Faculty is not now ready to say they're in favor of such a close relationship...
Because educational instruction became co-ed in 1943, the merger would have no direct effect on professors' lifestyles, which explains their disinterest. Franklin L. Ford, dean of the College until the end of 1969, remembers bemused Faculty members at the time asking, "What does it have to do with...
...Faculty did debate--somewhat--the effects of a one-to-one female ratio, which the administration had predicted as a possible outcome of the merger. Though no Faculty member explicitly opposed the merger--with the exception of what Ford calls a few "curmudgeonly old misogynists"--many professors worried that the push to balance the ratio could force a decrease in the number of male applicants accepted. Reducing the male student body spelled disaster to Pusey who declared at the February Faculty meeting: "Call this male chauvinist if you like. There are many people here who would be unhappy...
Faculty members very briefly touched on how the merger would affect students. Some argued women might be better off remaining Radcliffe students, if only officially, because it gave them a sense of identity that affiliation with Harvard would destroy. Constable says he and other faculty members "somewhat feared women would not be as well-off." More faculty seemed concerned that men might be better off if women remained Radcliffe students. Pusey pronounced at the February Faculty meeting that Harvard had an "obligation to the nation" to train Harvard men. Peterson says he felt "very protective about the male student body...