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Manual Santos writes: 
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>Women students were allowed into Harvard classrooms for the first time 
in... 1943!  
 
I don't think this is true, for I possess a copy of Lauchlin Currie's diary 
for 1926-27 when he was a graduate student at Harvard, and they include 
several references to the women in his class (though they sat at the back, 
as I recall from memory). They were Radcliffe women, but they were in the 
Harvard classrooms.  
 
Also, I have a copy of a letter from Eleanor Lansing Dulles (sister of John 
Foster and Allen Dulles) to Allyn Young's biographer, Charles Blitch. In it 
she spoke of how Young was the near perfect teacher: "A large, 
square-shouldered man with slightly rumpled tweeds, he would look into 
space with a long range perspective while his hands groped for a 
handkerchief -- usually not there, and we wondered whether we should give 
him one. But his words never failed him... Never have I known such a 
combination of sound knowledge and willingness to speculate and 
reconsider." 
 
Eleanor Dulles finished her dissertation under Young's supervision in 
April1926 and it was published as "The French Franc, 1914-28", New York, 
Macmillan, 1929, with an introduction by Young. 
 
She also wrote: "When we were told he was leaving to be on the faculty of 
the London Schol of Economics [summer 1927], Emily Huntington, later 
professor of Economics at Berkeley, and I, who saw what a mess his office 
was in, offered to help... It was an interesting chore and one that gave me 
a better understanding of his dedication and sense of values... We who were 
his students owe him much." 
 
Roger Sandilands 
University of Strathclyde 
 
 
 
 
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