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The University entered the decade as the wealthiest and arguably most prestigious research institution in the country. And it leaves the decade as the wealthiest and arguably most prestigious research institution in the country.
President Derek C. Bok still runs things from his Mass. Hall vantage point, and first-year students still live in the Yard. The much-vaunted house system and Core Curriculum are still in place, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences still has but a handful of women and minority...
And the big issues--the University's holdings in South Africa, its closed circle of governance, its lack of a diverse faculty--just never disappeared.
It is perhaps fitting that the biggest event of the decade was the ostentatious party Harvard threw for itself on the occasion of its 350th birthday in 1986. Prince Charles and luminaries of all stripes were on hand for the week-long festivities in September, as were angry protesters, who...
With its fireworks and endless symposia, its big-name politicians and celebrity academics, the 350th was Harvard at its best and worst. Quite simply, it was Harvard at its most Harvard.