Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilson comes to the job from a scholarly background in chemistry, and more recent experience in research and policy administration. She is less known for her scholarship than for her work on scientific research committees, fundraising and university administration...
Some Radcliffe advisers, however, have expressed concern over Wilson's lack of feminist scholarship and identification with women's causes. As one insider said, "What people are upset about is the lack of her track record on something related to feminism or women... or even the most traditional feminist organization." Wilson's lack of a track record on feminism and unwillingness to call herself a feminist is disturbing, but does not have to limit her potential as an advocate for women...
...made with members of the Harvard faculty to teach women students. It is later incoporated as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. In 1894, Radcliffe College is officially established, named in honor of Ann Radcliffe, whose gift of œ100 in 1643 established Harvard's first scholarship fund...
...that of the Harvard academic community: the knowledge is here for your consumption, but we will not spoon-feed it to you. Spending our time proselytizing would mean one less Black child that we got off the streets and into a tutoring program: one less donation for our annual scholarship; one less thing we could do for our community. It is not that we have anything against intellectualizing the problems of today, as Professor Kilson has done for many years. But words on a page do no good if, as the professor stated, Black students cannot read them...
That day, Berkoff led the Crimson to a 17th place finish in the national championships, the best finish by a non-scholarship school as well as an Eastern team...