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...Integration created a balanced co-educational environment in the Quad, where the switch led to a one to one ratio of males to females. But women often only made up 30 percent or less of the student population in the River Houses. This imbalance was even more evident in the Yard...
...women who chose to spend freshman year in the Quad were also choosing a more balanced male to female ratio, something that many men and women perceived as necessary for more healthy and normal social relations...
...Harvard had a rigid admissions policy that admitted four male students for every one female student. Former President Derek C. Bok mandated that the ratio for the Class of 1976 be changed to 2.5 to one. The debate over the admissions policy took place and was resolved during the Class of 1976’s time on campus. Administrators finally abolished the gender quotas for the class...
...When President Bok changed the ratio, he knew that the question of whether we were getting the strongest candidates possible under the current admissions system had to be addressed,” Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’71-73 says...
...Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy von Stade ’38 landed in hot water when a letter he wrote to the director of admissions at Radcliffe opposing any change in the four to one ratio was obtained and published by The Crimson. Von Stade wrote that he “thought that the world in the foreseeable future was going to be primarily run by men.” For this reason, he argued it would be impractical to try to increase the number of women, whom he saw as less likely to rise to leadership positions...