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Last week an event took place that far overshadows any of these disasters, and in fact any in the past several decades. In his 1927 novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder wrote: "Those catastrophes which lawyers shockingly call the 'acts of God' were more than usually frequent. Tidal waves were continually washing away cities; earthquakes arrived every week and towers fell upon good men and women all the time." He was writing of Peru...
...Harvard Law School has absolutely ignored women in the past. We want to reach the girls who need just a little more encouragement, to show them that women have a place in the Law School," said Anne R. Thornton '69, president of the Harvard Women's Law Student Association. At present, eight per cent of Harvard's law students are women...
...Harvard women's law group originally submitted a budget proposal of $1800 for the program. However, since the Admissions Office is already 30 per cent over its recruitment allowance, only $700 was set aside for female recruitment, Mrs. Thornton said...
...Anne R. Thornton '69, president of the Harvard Women's Law Student Association, said she feels that Radcliffe should not merge unless Harvard agrees both to accept financial responsibility for Radcliffe and to "get more women into the Harvard community...
...Thornton said after the meeting that the percentage of women in the University should be brought up to that of the nation as a whole. "What is right is 51 per cent. That's what we're asking for," she said...