Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even Ratio...
...Serafini said that the Dunster House plan was better than the other three because it would allow for the most even ratio between men and women...
...second proposal followed a somewhat different line of argument. Since Winthrop Adams, and Lowell will have small-scale living exchanges this spring. Mather had an opportunity to aid the experiment in a unique way. The other Houses will only exchange about 50 students each: boy-girl ratios will then be about five to one in the three Harvard Houses. If all the 100 extra places in Mather were offered to Cliffies, Mather House would approach a one-to-one living ratio. Any over-all coed Harvard-Radeliffe living plan will probably include some all-male dorms, some all-female dorms...
Kagan said that the male-female ratio in future coed housing should be more evenly balanced than the four-to-one ratio in the undergraduate student body. His committee probably will recommend that each coed House have a two-to-one ratio. This ratio would be possible, he said, if four Harvard Houses and two-and-one-half Radcliffe Houses (i. e.. all but two or three dorms) are made coeducational...
Coed living in three or four Harvard Houses and two or three Radcliffe Houses. This would give the coed Houses a male-female ratio of either five-to-three...