A Happy Marriage In Byerly?

Sometime before July 1, Harvard and Radcliffe are going to have to hire a painter to set the record straight for prospective students wandering into Byerly Hall.

On that date, the merger between the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices will take effect, and the red-on-white sign in the Byerly reception room, which now sports diverging arrows for the separate offices, will be obsolete.

On a strictly functional basis, the merger of the two admissions offices will not cause any large disruptions for the admissions procedure. Since the two offices began sharing side-by-side locations in Byerly, they have been working more and more closely.

The problems in combining the offices are likely to be of a much more personal nature. As yet, no one has come up with a way to make sure that everyone in the Harvard and Radcliffe hierarchies is given a similar job and title under the single office.