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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty members very briefly touched on how the merger would affect students. Some argued women might be better off remaining Radcliffe students, if only officially, because it gave them a sense of identity that affiliation with Harvard would destroy. Constable says he and other faculty members "somewhat feared women would not be as well-off." More faculty seemed concerned that men might be better off if women remained Radcliffe students. Pusey pronounced at the February Faculty meeting that Harvard had an "obligation to the nation" to train Harvard men. Peterson says he felt "very protective about the male student body...
...then a few diehards fussed about the dangers to the old boy network. A rapid growth of the female student body might reduce "male bonding," David Riesman and his colleagues predicted. Some of the elderly professors liked to "pretend that the old system still existed, when it had long gone by the boards," Pusey now recalls...
Trilling, who originally thought general student arrogance hurt relationships, recently revised her view. "At the time I did not give students full credit for seriousness, for practicality in their relationships. A generational reaction," she added smiling...
...Radcliffe deans' position in loco parentis justified their monitoring of student activities. By 1969, only freshmen had to sign the ledgers, and then only until Thanksgiving, but they had to sign out anywhere they went after dinner, even if the distance was no greater than the 100 yards between the hall and Hilles Library. Undergraduates were required to sign out if they planned to be gone overnight, but only a handful ever did, and then mainly on weekends, Barbara Molony '71 says...
Nevertheless, Harvard appeared much stricter than Radcliffe about keeping the sexes apart. Lamont Library did not open to women until 1968, much to the surprise of the first Radcliffe student to enter officially, who said she had often been there before. Harvard required its students to escort Radcliffe women home if they were out after 11 p.m. At the same time, the University decreed in 1966 that the latest women could stay at Harvard organizations was 12:30 a.m., and that extension applied only to The Crimson and WHRB...