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Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died December 3, 2020, Ithaca, New York) was an American writer whose urbane and witty novels usually feature upper-middle-class academics in a university setting. Lurie graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947 and later taught English and then children’s literature at Cornell ...
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Le Baron Russell Briggs grew up in Cambridge and was educated at Harvard. From 1903 to 1923, he was the part-time president of Radcliffe and the dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. During Briggs’s years as president, he raised Radcliffe’s endowment to $4 million and the College purchased the ...
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary research and exploration. The Institute’s work is shaped by its history as the former Radcliffe College—a school founded to ensure that the standard of education embodied in ...
The Institute rests firmly on the foundation of its predecessor, Radcliffe College—a school created to ensure that the standard of education embodied in Harvard was accessible to women. Radcliffe’s unwavering commitment to women and the study of gender endures in the Institute’s programs and the world-class collections of its Schlesinger Library.
11. Feb. 2024 · The china originally belonged to Mary Glaser, who attended Radcliffe College in the 1930s. Open for research. Records of the Radcliffe Choral Society, 1957-1970, 1976-1986 and undated (HUD 3277.6000). The oldest women’s organization at Radcliffe and one of the oldest women’s choirs in the nation, the Radcliffe Choral Society was founded in ...
20. Jan. 2023 · Radcliffe College broke barriers for women seeking to earn the same educational opportunities presented to men. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and other women established the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women to offer classes taught by Harvard faculty and which came to be called the Harvard Annex. The Annex opened its doors in 1879 and by 1890 more than 200 women were being taught by 70 ...
Consequently, when the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard redesigned our logotype in 2020–2021, we sought a clean, refreshed design that preserved the familiar bendlets of the Radcliffe family crest, introduced the work of a female typographer, Katharina Köhler, and embraced the legacy of Radcliffe College—including its history of change and resilience.
