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...practical reasons given in the report for maintaining the present ratio were excruciatingly revealing. An increase in total enrollment to 9000 was convincingly dismissed because of the drain it would cause on money and on Cambridge housing space. But the reasons given against equalizing male and female enrollment at 3000 each had no foundation other than male supremacy. The first was based on the idea that only male companionship is important for both women and men. (Remember the construction of dorms at Harvard and Radcliffe.) A decrease in the number of men, the report argued, would mean that the remaining...
...major reasons that Faculty members and Harvard administrators cite against merger are ratio and finances. The primary concern of women opposed to merger is the question of a continuing commitment to education for women...
...Harvard and Radcliffe were to merge totally, there would undoubtedly be pressure to change the present four-to-one male-female ratio to an equal one. Some Harvard administrators fear that legislation now pending in Congress might make the present ratio an illegal one if men and woman were part of the same undergraduate body. Cogent arguments against increasing the total number of students in the Colleges have been advanced from many sides...
...other alternative for obtaining an equal ratio is to cut down the present male enrollment by 1800, adding that number of women. Many of the men conditioned to look upon Harvard as a male institution hotly protest this alternative. Pusey has said that Harvard has "an obligation to the nation" to train men for their careers. Last February, when a delegation from the National Organization for Women (NOW) met with him to ask for an increased female enrollment, he reportedly said. "But to do that, we would have to cut down on the number of qualified people we admit." "Qualified...
Many faculty members feel that the ratio question is the most important one about merger, but Mrs. Bunting, a strong proponent of merger, has not seen it as such. "The feeling that the ratio would be changed much doesn't have a high priority with me-nor with Radcliffe students." she said last week. She said that pressure might come from Harvard students who want an equal ratio in the Houses. "Our principal job right now is to fix this place up for the women who are here," she said...