Radcliffe College
The Radcliffe College was a US women's college in Cambridge , Massachusetts and a member of the prestigious " Seven Sisters ".
history
Radcliffe College was an extension of the then all-male Harvard University for female students with its own buildings and campus. The founding year is 1879, when 27 women passed the university entrance examination. The college was named after Ann Radcliffe (Lady Mowlson), an English patroness. In her will of 1643 she had given Harvard College, the forerunner of Harvard University, a legacy that, after her death in 1661, led to the establishment of the first American scholarship fund.
During World War II, an agreement was reached that allowed women to attend lectures at Harvard. From 1963, the Radcliffe graduates' diplomas were already signed by the deans of both universities. In the decades that followed, Harvard and Radcliffe students became more and more intermingled, so that in 1999 Radcliffe College joined Harvard University as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study .
Today various institutes , including the one for women's studies, are housed in the buildings of the former Radcliffe University . The Radcliffe Institute also operates the Schlesinger Library , a research library on the history of women in America.
Well-known graduates
- Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician
- Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy (* 1946), American anthropologist, behavioral scientist and primatologist
- Stockard Channing (born 1944), American actress
- Rana Dajani , Jordanian microbiologist and education activist
- Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–2017), American physicist
- Abigail Folger (1943–1969), American actress
- Carol Gilligan (* 1936), American psychologist and feminist ethicist
- Amy Goodman (* 1957), American journalist
- Mary Graustein (1884–1972), American mathematician and university professor
- Sheila A. Greibach (* 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist
- Jean C. Harris (1927–1988), American art historian and museum director
- Dorothy Heyward (1890–1961), American playwright
- Helen Hogg (1905-1993), Canadian astronomer
- Josephine Hull (1877–1957), American actress
- Helen Keller (1880–1968), deaf-blind writer
- Mary Lefkowitz (* 1935), American classical philologist
- Alison Lurie (* 1926), American writer and literary scholar
- Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (1906–2007), American cancer epidemiologist
- Rowena Green Matthews (* 1938), American biochemist and biophysicist
- Eleanor Pairman (1896–1973), American mathematician and university professor of Scottish origin; She was the third woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from Radcliffe College
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), English-American astronomer
- Carol Potter (born 1948), American actress
- Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American feminist, poet, lecturer and author
- Ann Ronell (1906–1993), American composer and lyricist
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), writer
- Maribel Vinson (1911–1961), American figure skater and figure skating coach
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Radcliffe College , accessed May 31, 2011.
- ^ Radcliffe Institute. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
Coordinates: 42 ° 22 '54.9 " N , 71 ° 7' 28.9" W.