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...STADE likewise stands opposed to the most emphatic demand of women students: equal admissions to Harvard and Radcliffe. "If we go one-to-one, you've got to think what's going to happen to the women's colleges," von Stade argues. "There aren't enough women to go around that have the academic measurements that we and the Seven Sisters...
...Stade appears to have little fondness for student activism in general. He termed the period of the student strikes in 1969 and 1970 "hyperemotional...
...itself von Stade comes out sounding closer to President Nixon than to Democratic nominee George McGovern. "My own feelings, at least now, are that it is a disaster that we ever got into the war," he says. "But my feelings even today...
...Stade is not like a lot of people. Born of an old German Irish New York clan (the Skiddy is Irish, the von Stade German), he was brought up on Long Island, "the world immediately following the world of the Great Gatsby," as he describes it. His home town was Old Westbury, a New York suburb that he says "used to cut a lot of mustard in certain novels...
...Stade family are renowned horsemen. Skiddy's father, who was also named Skiddy--"He was what you called in those days a gentleman jockey," Skiddy Jr. says--founded the Museum of Racing in Saratoga, N.Y., along with Averill Harriman...