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What is the precise meaning of the language of this second purpose? According to Liva Baker, in her 1976 book, I'm Radcliffe, fly me!, this provision "contemplated the dismantling of the women's college as soon as Harvard admitted women...." In other words, the whole thing was expected to...
In 1894, the charter was amended to change the name to Radcliffe College and to include two more purposes "in addition to" the original ones. These latter two are general aims: (1) to furnish instruction and collegiate life and (2) to promote higher education for women. Note that the original...
A little-known provision of the Constitution -- the 22nd Amendment -- states that no one who serves out someone else's presidential term "for more than two years... shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." So if Clinton were to leave office before January 20, Gore...
"Well, not exactly," I said. "The Republicans didn't actually want him out, because they don't want to face Albert Gore as an incumbent President in 2000. They wanted to go through the process of getting him out but then leave him in. The people who wanted him out...
It is not as if we have nowhere to go but endlessly around the earth. True, until a few years ago, it could have been argued that a moon base was impractical and Mars exploration even more so. But we have recently discovered ice on the moon, which makes the...