Radcliffe College facts for kids
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the female college attached to Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges.
It shared, with Bryn Mawr College, the popular reputation of students being both intellectually and independently minded. 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. 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.
Images for kids
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Among the earliest buildings at Radcliffe College were the Fay House and the gymnasium (photo c.1904).
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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House, 2012
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Radcliffe class in radio science, 1922
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Astronomer and computer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (AB, 1892)
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Civil rights activist and journalist Mary White Ovington (1891-1893, no degree)
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Novelist, playwrite, poet Gertrude Stein (AB, 1898)
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Author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller (AB, 1904)
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Spy for the United Kingdom and United States Virginia Hall (1924-1925, no degree)
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Author Margaret Atwood, (AM, 1962)
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11th Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto (AB, 1973)
