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...resolutions adopted by the Overseers yesterday are probably the initial steps in the most radical move Harvard has yet made to wards the education of women. The resolution to the effect that degrees of Harvard shall not be conferred on students of Radcliffe simply insists that the relations between the two institutions shall not be confused. The soundness of this position is not to be questioned. The second resolution has more import, it admits Radcliffe students to all Harvard courses which are intended primarily for graduates. Practically speaking, Harvard is to have coeducation in the Graduate School...
Towards this idea, our first feeling was one of repugnance. When, however, the matter was examined in detail, when it was discovered precisely why this move was made and precisely in what it will result, our feeling changed. The courses opened are only those in which advanced work is pursued; these courses are more expensive than any others and their duplication at Radcliffe cannot be afforded. Radcliffe students must be admitted to them here, or else be debarred altogether...
...Prospect Union is in need of larger quarters; the number of men who wish to enter classes there is greater than can in any way be accommodated. To meet this need, the most expedient move has seemed to be the purchase of the old City Hall of Cambridge. The money for this purpose is to be raised, partly by mortgage and partly by bonds issued by the Prospect Union and secured by the real estate purchased. We speak of the matter because, in the first place, we believe that the Prospect Union does an excellent work and that every plan...
...another way, this move of the Prospect Union concerns Harvard men even more closely. The enlarged quarters will be accompanied by an increased need of teachers from the University, and there ought to be no lack of response to this need. Organized with only forty charter members, it has grown, within less than four years, so as to have more than six hundred members. By it a class of people are interested in education whom it would be impossible to reach as effectually in any other manner, and in whom any interest in such matters is commonly despaired...
...undiscovered land whose margin fades Forever and forever as we move...