particular instance. well, times have changed, and i m here to recognize the sweet of this change and try to understand resistance to it. i m somewhat of an outsider, for the exception of my one-year job at what is now the schlesinger, and my job at the teaching. i ve lived and worked outside of harvard. ive come back many times to research. was a fellow at the radcliffe institute, as you know, and continue today my long and happy association with the schlesinger as a reader. of course, i ve studied and written about higher education in women s colleges. so my talk today will focus on these things. and i want you to pay attention for it really is complicated. i m going to talk about origins and exclusion, history and tradition, prestige and privilege, innovation, access, accommodation and invisibility. and struggle and equity. let me begin with origins and exclusion. i don t think it really began as a taboo, but rather as professor jeanie suggested, though perhaps exaggerated