Harvard College will become coeducational, announced the Boston Globe last week. The United Press put the rumor on the wires, soon had to follow it with Harvard's denial. "Globe Baloney," said the undergraduate Harvard Crimson.* Its editors supported what was really under way some administrative consolidation of Harvard and Radcliffe.
*More impassioned were Yale editors in 1924 when plans for a Nursing School inspired the rumor that Yale might go coed. "The cry arises," cried the Yale Daily News, "Keep the undergraduate schools homosexual."
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