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Last year, a handful of seniors who were members of the Fly Club decided it was time to admit women into an institution that had been exclusively male for 156 years...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Why the Fly Club Changed Its Mind On Women | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

...them, the idea didn't seem revolutionary, but they knew they had to convince the rest of the Fly, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs. Last September, the matter came to a vote, and Fly members voted 28-0 to admit women, with one abstention...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Why the Fly Club Changed Its Mind On Women | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

Graduate members of the Fly say the club's graduate board is to blame. By deciding to delay the vote by a year instead of acting immediately, the graduate board allowed the bid to admit women into the Fly to lose critical momentum...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Why the Fly Club Changed Its Mind On Women | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

...alumnus says he thinks the Carlock, the club president, could push the vote to admit women, if he chose...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Why the Fly Club Changed Its Mind On Women | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

...compared the prospect of a coed punch with the decision to admit the first Black Fly members...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Why the Fly Club Changed Its Mind On Women | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

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