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Some people say that UHall will never entirely stop feeling this intrusion because it often operates as an old-boy network and Radcliffe women are simply not old boys. As one UHall administrator says, "Mrs. Horner is sitting in the cat-bird seat and the people here just don't know how to fathom...
...relations with Mass Hall and President Bok's universe Horner has also been aware that she is dealing with an institution steeped in male values and traditions. But she says that the Mass Hall administration and the Harvard Corporation have been "enormously supportive...
...personal level she says she no longer notices that she is the only woman or one of very few women at a given meeting. Change, according to Horner, is coming to Harvard but the process is a slow one. She says she hopes that by Radcliffe's centennial in 1979 a definite direction and future will have been publicly plotted out for Radcliffe. She also says she believes that as attention is focused around the community and among alumnae on the centennial, Radcliffe "will come to stand for the rubric of feminism...
...undoubtedly too early to gauge the effects of the Horner style and administration as it enters its fifth year. It can only be speculated whether Radcliffe need not have been in a state of flux for the past few years if more aggressive action, that had captivated Faculty and student attention, had been used to define Radcliffe's relationship with the University. Horner obviously does not think so and she points to the new programs developed to bolster her claims...
...Radcliffe observer probably explained Horner's administration best when she said, "I just picture a smiling, open woman who would have been a better professor than an administrator. I think the place got what it deserves, for better or worse. A stronger person wouldn't want...