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...Radcliffe class of 1959 said that though they realized there were gender disparities, none said they felt seriously disenfranchised at the time. Many pointed out that the women’s movement was far removed from their college experience.Still, some women imbued nontraditional motives into traditional practices in order to gain independence from Radcliffe’s restrictive rules and mores.In addition to the beauty pageant, in 1959, only Radcliffe women had curfews and dining hall chores. Women were not allowed to wear pants in the evenings below the second floor of their dormitories. They were also supervised...
...equivalent of $5 per square foot, plus an additional $1 million for the property. University officials said at the time that the extra million dollars—the equivalent of $7 million today—was intended to help the MTA relocate its switching yards, which was required in order for the transportation authority to sell its land.There was some concern that the University would not actually be able to pay the amount it had promsed, according to Bruce L. Paisner ’64, who covered the ongoing negotiation over the Bennet Street Yards for The Crimson.Taxed land...
...took Nightingale, a history and literature concentrator from St. Louis, Mo., to the Bunker Hill Monument. So when he decided to ask Nightingale to marry him, that monument seemed like the logical choice for location. This time around, Rinehart decided to take the bus instead of the subway in order to keep the proposal a surprise. After losing the monument from their sight on a walk that quickly became painful for Nightingale in her new high heels, the two feared that they might be lost until a passerby indicated they were on the right path. Rinehart and Nightingale finally arrived...
...Upon his arrival at Harvard, President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 took up an existing initiative to review the role of the arts within the University. He created a five-person visiting committee, chaired by John Nicholas Brown ’22, in order to investigate how the arts might become more integrated into Harvard’s education...
...relations were admittedly “very awkward.” Eventually, Jou returned to the subject during his senior year. After a series of encounters in which Aljawhary’s family and friends asked Jou to answer a “list of questions” in order to gauge his potential as a husband, Jou proposed officially over last Thanksgiving break. In a symbolic acknowledgment of Aljawhary’s Egyptian background, Jou, whose parents are Iranian, wrote and pronounced the proposal in Arabic. While the moment may have been awkward for everyone involved, Jou noted playfully...