Word: radcliffee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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All Radcliffe students had to be in their dorms at 11 p.m. on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends, and the Quad at night frequently looked like a scene out of a bad romance novel. "All the couples would be kissing good night on the steps at the same time...
Despite the restrictions Radcliffe students lived under, many alumnae praise the college for providing the best education possible given the times. "The school was very supportive of academic endeavors, unlike most schools at the time," says Wood, now a professor of radiology at the University of Rochester.
Although the Class of 1961 graduated two years before Betty Friedan debunked the myth of the happy American housewife in The Feminine Mystique, many Radcliffe graduates were already struggling with having to chose between family and career.
"For young women trying to make decisions it was very confusing. Distinguished individuals disagreed," says Judith Wilson Rogers '61. "Radcliffe had a traditional senior-junior luncheon. At ours [then-Radcliffe President] Mary I. Bunting gave a statement on how it was possible to combine marriage and a career. Margaret Mead...
"We had to be pioneers and figure it out for ourselves," says Rogers, a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. "But that may be what a Radcliffe education was all about."