Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was an American women's college in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the prestigious "Seven Sisters".

History

Radcliffe College was an extension founding of Harvard University for female students with their own buildings and private campus. As a founding year is 1879, when 27 women passed the entrance examination of the university. Name to the College was Ann Radcliffe (Lady Mowlson ), an English patron. In her will of 1643 she had the Harvard College, the forerunner of Harvard University, honored with a legacy that led to the founding of the first American Scholarship Fund after her death in 1661.

During the Second World War, an agreement was reached that allowed women to attend lectures at Harvard. From 1963, the diplomas awarded by Radcliffe - graduates have already been signed by the deans of both universities. In the following decades, the students of Harvard and Radcliffe merged more and more, so you joined in 1999 Radcliffe entirely at Harvard University.

Today, in the buildings of the former Radcliffe University, various institutions, including the housed women for science.

Known graduates

  • Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician
  • Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, ( born 1946 ), American anthropologist, ethologist and primatologist
  • Mildred Dresselhaus ( born 1930 ), American physicist
  • Abigail Folger (1943-1969), American actress
  • Carol Gilligan ( b. 1936 ), American psychologist and feminist ethicist
  • Amy Goodman ( born 1957 ), American journalist
  • Sheila A. Greibach (* 1939), US- American mathematician and computer scientist
  • 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 ( born 1935 ), American Classicist
  • Alison Lurie ( born 1926 ), American writer and literary scholar
  • Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (1906-2007), American Cancer epidemiologist
  • Carol Potter ( born 1948 ), American actress
  • Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), American feminist, poet, teacher 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
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