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More than that, the President added, the "serious allegations and accusations hang like a sword over our former President's head and threaten his health as he tries to reshape his life." Most important, Ford hoped that the pardon would help heal the nation. Any move to bring Nixon to trial, the President noted, would have taken many months or years. During that period "ugly passions would again be aroused, our people would again be polarized in their opinions, and the credibility of our free institutions of Government would again be challenged at home and abroad...
Bunting was both realistic and optimistic in her analogy. She understood that an agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe would threaten Radcliffe's identity and only enhance Harvard's. Harvard, with its vast resources, would definitely be the base colony in any effort to bring the two hives closer together...
...perhaps Bunting was too optimistic in her assumption that the "workers" of Harvard and Radcliffe could devour through all the paper that separated the two institutions. For years, loyal Harvardians have argued against any change in the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship that could remotely threaten the "10,000 men of Harvard" syndrome...
...always be financial security, the argument begins. To ensure this security, Harvard must maintain and increase the current levels of support it receives from alumni and friends. So no discussion about the Harvard-Radcliffe future alternatives can even be initiated if there is a chance that the outcome could threaten the present money-flow to Harvard. The argument goes on to suggest that Harvard can not possibly reduce the numbers of men it educates in any efforts to increase the numbers of women because of the two pronged threat such action would pose to future contributions. First, many current alumni...
...committee have at least expressed a willingness to consider the size increase. Most of the older committee members appear to fear the prospect posed by Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, that any decrease in the number of men at Harvard could seriously threaten efforts to maintain existing levels of alumni donations...