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Presidents Bok and Horner stressed the importance of a comprehensive liberal arts education in an era of "ethical dilemmas" and rapid social change to a small but attentive audience of freshmen at Sanders Theater last night...
Because the agreement appeared to be the major step toward complete merger, many people at Harvard felt Horner was in a position of presiding over a dying empire that no longer had any purpose or direction...
...Horner was to bring in a new era, one that would be carefully conditioned by a 1971 agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe that made undergraduate life entirely coeducational and coresidential but left Radcliffe as an independent entity on the corporate level--the so-called non-merger merger...
...Horner's position is, in the words of Classics Professor, long-time Lowell House master and recently retired trustee member Zeph Stewart, "the executive officer of an institution that's not yet sure of where it's going or what it should be doing. She came into a job which very well might disappear...
...Horner has a different view. As she sat in her spacious, cleanly decorated office in Fay House, Horner said last week that she accepted the post because it was a challenge. "The thing that attracted me to the job were the questions that affected the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship and a chance to really affect some of the issues, on a national level, that concern women and education in general...