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...Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.“She was here all the time, seven days a week—I’d come in on the weekends and there she’d be at her desk,” says Judith E. Vichniac, director of Radcliffe??s fellowship program. “She’s somebody who really put her nose to the grindstone.”Elkins’ academic safari began in 1989 when she touched down in Namibia to teach English.“I knew almost immediately that this...
When Elizabeth Cary Agassiz helped found the “Harvard Annex”—the predecessor to Radcliffe??in 1879, it is unlikely that she could have imagined a day when—down the street—women would outnumber men in caps and gowns in the Yard.Two years from now, that day is likely to arrive. Females outnumbered males among freshmen enrolling in the Class of 2008, the Admissions Office reported at the time.And Agassiz, who received no formal education but became a prominent naturalist and educator nonetheless, may never have thought that...
...were a really good start to the season.” The trouble began for the Black and White when it fell to top-ranked Princeton in the Class of ’75 Cup in New Jersey on April 8. The Tigers’ first varsity boat bested Radcliffe??s by almost twelve seconds. The problems continued the following week in the O’Leary Cup with Dartmouth, as the Big Green beat the Black and White’s first varsity by six tenths of a second on the Connnecticut River. In New Haven Radcliffe...
...says. “Even though we had probably less confidence and less of a sense that the academy was ours than young women there today, we were by-and-large pretty sure of our feminist identity.”Faludi participated in Radcliffe??s Feminisms Then and Now lecture series in 2005 and will receive Radcliffe??s Alumnae award on June 9.—Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard’s Class of 1956 comes doddering back to Cambridge for its 50th reunion this week, many of the old men (and the women of Radcliffe??s Class of 1956) are less than overjoyed with the changes that have taken place. There is grumbling about the fact that Harvard has just lost its president, driven from office for, among other sins, expressing his own ideas about the apparent dearth of women in the ranks of scholars in the sciences. The fact that today’s college administrators, as well as faculty, are at risk...