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They wrote them off as ‘Jennys’, a term referring to the sarcastic and studious heroine of the popular movie Love Story. Sometimes, the stereotype was true. The women beat far stiffer admissions competition; Harvard matriculated four times as many students as Radcliffe and Radcliffe??s admissions officers placed a stronger emphasis on grade point average. “Women were admitted to Radcliffe by a really different formula, a different philosophy,” says Director of Admissions Marilyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, who used to work...
Harvard and Radcliffe??s dynamic responded to national events. First, the school shut down in reaction to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Then, in the spring of 1969, students took over University Hall in a labor protest. Final exams were cancelled. Classes stopped meeting. Studying became a struggle...
Pharr said that Radcliffe??s own researchers could inform the University’s emerging initiative. She cited as one example Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji, a psychologist who has studied gender disparities in attitudes toward mathematics. In online tests that ask subjects to categorize various pictures and words, Banaji has found that females associate “math” with unpleasant stimuli much more readily than males...
...surely enhances what is now Harvard,” said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes of Radcliffe??s legacy...
...first contest of the year, the Windermere Classic, held in Redwood Shores, Calif., the Black and White vanquished then-No. 3 Stanford and No. 5 Georgetown. But the then-No. 2 Tigers again had Radcliffe??s number, topping the Black and White by three seconds for their ninth consecutive victory over Radcliffe dating back to May 4, 2002. The loss dropped the Black and White to No. 2 in the nation. But after easily dispatching then-No. 10 Rhode Island, Radcliffe got another shot at Princeton three weeks later at the Knecht Cup on the Cooper. The Black...