Radcliffe students already took classes with Harvard students, but they were admitted to college separately and had their own living quarters, administration and trustees.
In 1941, he married Betty Mayo, a Radcliffe student; she is his only survivor.
Twenty years later, Harvard degrees were awarded for the first time to Radcliffe students.
Gardner's second wife, an 18-year-old Radcliffe student, quickly had their marriage annulled.
Radcliffe students, by contrast, had their own dormitory keys and filled out sign-in sheets when they arrived in the evening.
Not all Harvard faculty and administrators took Radcliffe students seriously, however.
All Harvard faculty, whether interested or not, had a legal obligation to teach Radcliffe students.
It was there he met a Radcliffe student who became his wife of 25 years, Elizabeth Watson.
Before graduation, he married his first wife, Joanna Brown, a Radcliffe student.
As a studio project, the Radcliffe students themselves have been working on a proposal for land that will be reclaimed with the submersion of I-93.