Word: radcliffee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Remember these are students that Harvard Radcliffe accepted, so we have a great deal of confidence with them to begin with," says Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis.
Shortly after becoming president of Radcliffe in 1972, Matina S. Horner went to the Faculty Club to meet with a member of Harvard's main governing board. Although women traditionally had been led in through the back door of the club and served in a dining room apart from the...
"I think it's only a matter of time until there are more women at the top echelons," says Zeckhauser, who was promoted from within, rising through Harvard Real Estate to the vice president for administration. Horner, too, followed the inside track when in 1972 she became the first Radcliffe...
But the First Class Marshal stresses that she has had no trouble fitting in at Harvard and at Radcliffe. "Being a Black female, I have another connection, the sisterhood of Radcliffe," she says. "The fact that this is our common denominator, I feel a sense of camaraderie."
Tactics, too, have changed. Instead of protesting in front of the final clubs, Theoharis says SWAT sought endorsements from the Harvard administration, from Radcliffe and from the Undergraduate Council. She says modern activists now resort to confrontation only as a last resort, when working within the system fails.