Gents, start your engines: Yale goes coed
In 1969, One-Seventh of Yale Men Afforded Chance
From Midwestern high schools and dorm rooms at Smith, Oberlin, Wellesley and Vassar, they packed their bags for a move to ivy-covered towers that were previously off limits. Pegged by The New York Times as “the Yale Superwomen,” the freshmen and transfer students who would make up Yale’s first coeducated classes arrived on campus to excitement and a media explosion. This was history in the making: Coeducation at Yale had begun.
And the men on campus were excited.
In September 1969, the Yale Daily News reported on the feeding frenzy of freshmen move-in, and men rushed to...
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