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...Von Stade's influence over incoming freshmen is likely to be small, and even then in most cases only indirect. The only times most freshmen see his office is in the beginning of the year when they submit their study cards showing what courses they have enrolled in, and at the end of each semester, when grades are issued...
DESPITE the limited scope of von Stade's power, a small storm erupted last year when students learned that the freshmen women brought into the newly coeducationalized Yard would fall under his jurisdiction. The objections stemmed from a private letter which von Stade had written to the director of Admissions at Radcliffe. In the letter, which The Crimson obtained and published, von Stade said that he opposed any change from the former 4-to-1 ratio of men to women undergraduates at Harvard. "I said I thought that the world in the foreseeable future was going to be primarily...
Although he concedes his feelings on the question are "perhaps more emotional than rational," von Stade believes there is a certain biological inevitability behind men having a role of greater leadership in our society. "My argument is speculative," he contends. "But it's also based on a certain amount of experience. I know a number of very able women who've gone to college and graduated very high, and gone on to professional school, but an awful lot of them take themselves out of circulation from between ten and twenty years--through motherhood and family and this kind of thing...
...Von Stade sees daycare as an unfeasible alternative. "Everything I hear about daycare is that a child needs a parent during those years in which daycare would be needed," he said. "And I always read 'parent' to mean 'mother...
...VON STADE likewise stands opposed to the most emphatic demand of women students: equal admissions to Harvard and Radcliffe. "If we go one-to-one, you've got to think what's going to happen to the women's colleges," von Stade argues. "There aren't enough women to go around that have the academic measurements that we and the Seven Sisters...