Word: seventh
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...first gave women access to a Harvard education. Officials said the Institute would "sustain a commitment to the study of women, gender and society." Under the proposed agreement, Radcliffe would be placed on an equal administrative footing with the University's nine faculties. Linda S. Wilson, Radcliffe's seventh and final president, announced that she would step down from her post in June. The fate of Radcliffe's undergraduate programs has yet to be determined...
Radcliffe will instead focus on its mission of "studying women, gender and society" and expand its already-famous post-graduate research centers. As part of the restructuring, President Linda S. Wilson, who headed the college during the negotiations that shaped its future, will resign her post as Radcliffe's seventh and final president. On Tuesday night, the Radcliffe Board of Trustees conferred upon her the title of president emerita and named the directorship of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute in her honor...
...contract, the union lost vacation time, lost seventh day double pay, lost the security that comes with seniority, and saw many of its other benefits reduced...
Miller says the board was acutely aware that Radcliffe was facing a financial crunch. Despite a fundraising campaign that was chugging into its seventh year, Radcliffe was burning money on unusually high administrative costs. From the beginning, the board realized it might have to sever official ties with undergraduates. Only then could it sell Radcliffe's buildings and land to Harvard--worth a considerable sum in the overheated Cambridge market...
Drinks would be on the outside; salad in the middle, bread in the ceiling tiles, fruit in Lowell Lecture Hall, dessert in Loker and the main entree somewhere between the fourth and seventh dimensions...