----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Manual Santos writes: > >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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]