Radcliffe College

Moors Hall, Radcliffe Quadrangle, Harvard University

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the female college attached to Harvard University.^[1] It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges.^[1]

It shared, with Bryn Mawr College, the popular reputation of students being both intellectually and independently minded.^[2] Radcliffe gave Radcliffe College diplomas to undergraduates and graduate students for the first 70 or so years of its history.

In 1963 Radcliffe gave joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates. A formal "non-merger merger" agreement with Harvard was signed in 1977.^[3] Radcliffe was fully integrated with Harvard by 1999. Today, in Harvard University, Radcliffe's former campus is now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The former Radcliffe housing at the Radcliffe Quadrangle is now in the Harvard College housing system. Under the terms of the 1999 agreement, the Radcliffe Yard and the Radcliffe Quadrangle will always keep the "Radcliffe" name.

Radcliffe College Media

Among the earliest buildings at Radcliffe College were the Fay House and the gymnasium (photo c.1904).
Radcliffe class in radio science, 1922
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House, 2012
Author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller (AB, 1904)
11th Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto (AB, 1973)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Donald D. Housley, Susquehanna University, 1858-2000: A Goodly Heritage (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2007), p. 53
↑ Horn, Miriam, quoting The Boston Globe, in Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary Clinton's Class—Wellesley '68, p. 8, co. 2000, Anchor. See also McCarthy, Mary, How I Grew, pp. 119–120, 1987, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. See Berman, Susan, The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice, pp. 234, 242, 246 and 404, 1971, Signet. See also Yale Daily News, "The Insiders Guide to the Colleges," 1975–76, co. 1975, G.P. Putnam and Sons. Finally, see Kendall, Elaine, Peculiar Institutions: An Informal History of the Seven Sister Colleges, p. 30, 1975, G.P. Putnam and Sons, NY
↑ International Dictionary of University Histories, eds. Mary Elizabeth Devine, Carol Summerfield (Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers, 1998), p. 342

[Housley53-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Donald D. Housley, Susquehanna University, 1858-2000: A Goodly Heritage (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2007), p. 53

[2] Horn, Miriam, quoting The Boston Globe, in Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary Clinton's Class—Wellesley '68, p. 8, co. 2000, Anchor. See also McCarthy, Mary, How I Grew, pp. 119–120, 1987, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. See Berman, Susan, The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice, pp. 234, 242, 246 and 404, 1971, Signet. See also Yale Daily News, "The Insiders Guide to the Colleges," 1975–76, co. 1975, G.P. Putnam and Sons. Finally, see Kendall, Elaine, Peculiar Institutions: An Informal History of the Seven Sister Colleges, p. 30, 1975, G.P. Putnam and Sons, NY

[3] International Dictionary of University Histories, eds. Mary Elizabeth Devine, Carol Summerfield (Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers, 1998), p. 342

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