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As an aside, I’d like to take this opportunity to bash the Harvard Glee Club, which (unlike Yale’s) is still all male. There is a separate all-female choir, but the male group is the one that goes and does the joint football concert with Yale’s Glee club, etc.</p>
<p>It’s still all male because, unlike Yale, Harvard had educated female undergrads for close to 100 years at the time of housing co-education in the 1970s. So the women had their own traditions and institutions that they chose not to give up. The 1899-founded Radcliffe Choral Society didn’t want to merge with the Glee Club. Instead, Harvard founded a third, mixed classical choir, the Collegium Musicum (which I was in during law school). Most of the people in the Collegium Musicum are there to sing classical repertoire and don’t care about the football concerts.</p>
<p>I’m surprised the author thought that Harvard was “celebrated as a bastion of progressive thought.” </p>