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...policymakers apparently overestimated the coercive effects which the air attacks could generate [in Vietnam]...Graduated escalation allowed time for the enemy to react to the U.S. pressures and sustain its morale, will and physical support of the war." --FROM CLARK'S THESIS...
Radcliffe and Harvard will together have to convince older alumnae, many of whom have the most money to give, that their gift will be a long-lasting legacy. In Tuesday's press conference, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine noted that any institute for advanced study must sustain itself primarily through donations...
APRIL 20, 1999 Harvard and Radcliffe announced that Radcliffe would be absorbed under the University's umbrella as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 120 years after it first brought women 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...
Harvard had hoped to contain the Dartmouth juggernaut with aggressive, mistake-free play, but it could not sustain the effort...
...Institute will "sustain a commitment to the study of women, gender and society," according to officials. However, leaders have said that issues of gender will not remain Radcliffe's exclusive focus. The ties that will bind the new interdisciplinary center together have yet to be determined exactly...