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Unfortunately, while Harvard took over responsibility for educating Radcliffe women, the University's traditional orientation towards wealthy, white males did not change. Roberta Benjamin, a member of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, summed up Harvard's attitude toward women when she stated that the 1960's was "a time when then-Harvard President Nathan Pusey could declare that Harvard could accept no additional women because Harvard's job was to train leaders, and guess who that didn't mean." F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, later said of women in the 1969 strike, "they were...
Lippmann played a central role in the formation of the Nieman Fellows program, begun in 1937. He advised then-Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 on the use of money from the bequest of Lucius Nieman, late publisher of The Milwaukee Journal. The money was given to Harvard with the stipulation that it be used for the promotion of better journalism...