Word: petersons
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Roger Tory Peterson, D.Sc., ornithologist and author. In a threatened world suddenly aware of its own mortality, you have long been a prophet of the interrelate dness of all living things...
...administrator most vocal in his opposition to more women at Harvard-and his opposition to merger-is Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid for Harvard College. In a report he wrote as chairman of a Faculty subcommittee to study the admissions and financial aid aspects of merger, Peterson argued against more women by citing the admissions policy he helped form...
Throughout Peterson's argument (and, unfortunately, the thinking of many men at Harvard) is the idea that women are all alike, not quite individual people: "in the face of reduced admissions," meaning fewer men and more women: "We should have more sons of alumni"-a dubious necessity anyway. When speaking of his "delegations." Peterson does not consider the possibility that Harvard might have a responsibility to educate the women of those groups as well. If the present Harvard undergraduate body is a more diverse group than Radcliffe's, it stems from Radcliffe's smaller scholarship fund-a deficiency that would...
...nation: "The men have all the intellectual resources, just as the whites have all the money." Now Radcliffe must contract with Harvard for women's education. It is either not possible to exert pressure from Radcliffe on Harvard's attitudes, or no one has really tried. Men such as Peterson can point to Radcliffe and say "not diverse," or "unimportant" very easily. After all, those students are not really Harvard's. Harvard does not have to take the responsibility for women as long as it can think that the special needs of women are Radcliffe's responsibility. If Harvard...
...person who could influence the prospects and realities of merger most is the new President of Harvard. Proponents of merger all emphasize that the president will have to feel a strong commitment to women's education. Were a man like Chase Peterson to become president, merger probably would not pass, and women would be kept in their present state of limbo between a full education within the University and the separate education that other colleges have had since their inception. A president committed to equality of women within the University could bring the whole community together and possibly influence...