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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even eat in the River Houses, Rosenblum recalls. "There is no doubt we were being treated as second-class citizens," she says. "When you had to eat lunch in the basement of Mem Church, it was a degradation." An even more pressing issue for Radcliffe women in the Yard was the lack of women's bathrooms, she adds...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Movin' In... ...And Checking Out | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...work independent of the office's programs. A standing committee of the faculty grants up to $10,000 a year to students proposing innovative programs "which will broaden undergraduates' understanding of the arts." The office also coordinates the goings-on at the Agassiz theater next door to its Radcliffe yard office. "At the theater we've got a doctrine of anti-interference," Mayman says--a policy which is largely absent from all other aspects of the office's intense professional instruction...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Portrait of the Arts as a Young Program | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Yard, President Horner takes a somewhat different view of the situation. Horner says it is very hard to compare Harvard and Radcliffe when it comes to federal influence. Horner believes that Radcliffe, because it has a comprehensive knowledge of women's issues, works from a base that is "more than just self-interest." While both institutions have a certain stature, says Horner, Harvard is a major research institution, a "very different ballgame" from Radcliffe, which "commands enormous respect for the quality of its students and the courage it has had." The contrast, as one Capitol Hill staffer says...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Radcliffe: On Her Own | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

Officials called back a Jim Pelgrift touchdown because of an illegal motion penalty, and a 55-yard Bob Tedaldi romp went to waste because of a Nick Golden fumble...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: South House, Quincy Stay Unbeaten | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

While president of Harvard, Henry Dunster was once called back from a journey to Concord by an urgent messenger who reported that some students had actually succeeded in raising the devil. Dunster dealt harshly with Satan--he blew up a pile of gunpowder in the Yard to exorcise the devil...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The College Reaches 343rd Birthday, But Nobody Celebrates--Or Even Knows | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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