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...October 11, 1999, at a minute past midnight, Radcliffe College officially came to an end. For 120 years, there had been two colleges under the Harvard umbrella, dedicated to the interests and needs of undergraduates; in the October night, Radcliffe College was no more, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was born. While this merger is likely to be the best policy for both Harvard College and the Radcliffe Institute to pursue their goals, the question still remains how women's issues and gender concerns will be addressed in the post-Radcliffe...
...Parietal rules also applied in the Harvard Houses to protect female virtue, but any Harvard freshman had the right to leave his room at midnight and go into the Square for a late snack. No Radcliffe senior had that privilege...
...claimed he was on a blind date with Jean Casey (whom he later married and divorced). A couple of weeks after the bombing, according to FBI files, Blanton called to ask her to remind him what they had done that Saturday night: they had dinner, and he stayed past midnight. "Her dad run old Tom off," says Wyman Lee, a Blanton crony. "Pretty hard to put Tom down there the same time the bomb was put down there." Casey, now Jean Barnes, denied that Blanton coached...
Tonight I will walk to the center of the Radcliffe Quad at midnight. I will try to ignore the pale faces illuminated by monitors in the surrounding dorm room windows. I will lay on my back and I will look up at something very big, very far away...
...have enjoyed many adventures over the past four years, but for me, there was one evening in particular that captured the essence of Harvard's social scene. It was a warm night last spring, well past midnight, and I was returning home from a gathering in a friend's room. Mt. Auburn street was nearly vacant, except for a shiny red sports car that cruised past me and pulled to a halt curbside. Out of the car emerged two well-dressed, well-coifed Harvard students--and a strung-out prostitute. As I stood entranced, my two classmates helped the wobbly...