Word: soups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish to show at the outset why you cannot go into the kitchen and make soup and count that soup for a degree. This is not because Radcliffe College belittles soup-making, or your soup-making in particular, but because the Radcliffe degree is essentially the Harvard degree, and it is warranted by a committee of the Harvard Faculty, by the President and Corporation and the Officers of Harvard College."-LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1909, quoted in Introducing Radcliffe...
...WHICH I move to Harvard and learn about soup...
...Harvard Faculty, President and Corporation, may never accept a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup toward their B. A. degree, but they will accept almost anything else. And very little of it: the Harvard degree is essentially a piece of paper. The Radcliffe degree is essentially the Harvard degree...
This is not to denigrate the value of a Harvard degree. Nor, for that matter, the value of a bowl of soup. Both these commodities can come in very handy, comfort the dying, and get one through many a hard day to come. Both come in various flavors, strengths, and thicknesses. Both, any young Radcliffe woman will note are invaluable attributes in trapping a young Harvard man. (As Mrs. LeBaron Russell Briggs would no doubt agree). Both are best when hot; both can be burned...
Remaining points about soup...