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Still, compared with the Radcliffe of 1979 the Radcliffe of 1954 stayed much more aloof from its monolithic neighbor. In 1963 Harvard would begin to confer its degrees upon Radcliffe students, and in 1971 Harvard would assume management control of Hilles Library and the Radcliffe dormitories. The admissions offices were merged in the mid 1970s and an "equal access" admissions policy...
When the 107 returning members of the Radcliffe Class of 1954 arrive at Comstock Hall Wednesday afternoon to embark upon three days of receptions, luncheons, colloquia, special exhibits and performances in honor of the Radcliffe Centennial, they'll find significant changes in their alma mater. Back in the early '50s, Radcliffe was an institution seeminly independent of Harvard, sharing only course instruction, an economy measure forced by war-time pressures. Radcliffe women lived in the dormitories at the Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned...
...creation of the Biko Fund "was based upon the assumption that in- ternational students were treated substantially different in the financial aid process than were American students," Eastman wrote...
This strategy was based upon an assumption that international students were treated substantially differently in the financial aid process than were American students and that a special fund for South African black students would fill a financial vacuum for these students. Recently however, after reviewing the functioning of the Fund. I discovered that the Fund would not actually fill a vacuum. Indeed, because the College's equal access policy covers foreign as well as American students, the Biko Fund money would actually serve as a substitute for money already forthcoming from the College financial aid office. From this realization...
Frady, son of a Southern Baptist preacher and author of a shrewdly vivid biography of George Wallace, approaches Graham with a complicated and sympathetic understanding. He also lavishes upon Billy an extravagantly garish prose style, a hot-wired Southern lushness of phrase and fluorescence of effect that would be insufferable were it not so accurate, so funny and, sometimes, so moving...