Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other interviews, Atwood has explained that she chose to set The Handmaid's Maid at Harvard because of its connection to early Puritan America. Harvard was originally founded to train Puritan ministers...
...roots of totalitarianism in America are found, I discovered, in the theocracy of the 17th Century," Atwood once told a reporter...
...turn of the century, higher education in America made a dramatic transformation as it began to emulate the research universities of Europe. Harvard, never one to be left out, made the switch from a college to a university under the visionary leadership of President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and thus ensured its preeminence for the decades to come...
...government began to invest in basic research. Harvard recast itself under then-President James B. Conant '14 to become--as it had not been before--a meritocratic institution drawing on a national student base, and the centuries-old school showed itself to be the leader among America's new system of higher education...
...This is a profoundly transformative moment in higher education in America," Rudenstine says. "Since 1970 at least, the system has been built and the fundamental structure has not shifted in any significant way...All of a sudden, the world is a whole new ballgame...