Union Urges Coeducation For Harvard and Radcliffe

Merging of Harvard and Radcliffe classes in both a wartime move and long-term project has been urged by the Harvard Teachers' Union as one of a series of measures to insure a continuation of liberal education here throughout the war.

According to the Union, the move would have the immediate effect of saving a great deal of the time now wasted in repeating lectures and section meetings. It would also tend to raise the standards of instruction at Radcliffe, they say, since many Harvard teachers are unenthusiastic about their feminine classes and tend to prepare loss and experiment.

With a sweeping drop in male enrollment imminent, the merger would seem to be an ideal way to keep a liberal arts curriculum in existence at Harvard and Radcliffe buildings and would be completely coeducational, except that large lecture courses such as History 1, which full lecture halls in both schools, might remain divided.

As a basic reason beyond the immediate improvements which would follow the move, members state that to deny women equal education is reactionary and that coeducation is superior as a general policy.