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Last September's decision to place a moratorium on the admission of male transfer students came in response to the overcrowded condition of the Houses. Nineteen women transfers were accepted, but a limit of ten was placed on the number who were expected to live on campus...
...Moratorium On Transfers Comes...
...minimum of 15 transfers will be admitted to Harvard College for the academic year 1975-1976, the Admissions Office announced in late August. The year-long moratorium was an attempt to reduce over-crowding caused by an increase of 300 undergraduates in 1971 designed to achieve a 2.5:1 sex ratio...
...respond to the concerns of public assemblies instead of delivering pre-packaged platitudes. An expression of hostility against Richardson would not bring peace to Southeast Asia. It would not resurrect the bodies or homes destroyed by the devastation of the Cambodian countryside. It would not compensate for a moratorium in government support for the protection of civil rights of minority groups and women, which Richardson oversaw as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. A hostile reception could only be a sign, but it could be an important sign nonetheless...
...When Kim Agnew, then 13, tried to wear a moratorium armband during antiwar demonstrations in 1969, what happened...