Word: backgrounding
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However the workings of the board remain relatively mysterious to most of the University community. The President Treasurer, and five Fellows who make up the Corporation prefer to remain in the background letting others implement their decisions. Today, in the final two installments of a three part series. The Crimson examines the history of the Harvard Corporation, how its role has hanged over the last 334 years and how it governs the University today...
...largest of the two murals is a scene of two men fighting against a background of bright red, and represents conflict. Valtierra's grandfather came to the U.S. because he got into a fight with the son of a judge in his Mexican village and, after the man drew a knife on him, shot him. Upon arriving in the U.S. he worked for the Union Pacific railroad; was shanghaied to Alaska and was a stunt man for D.W. Griffith...
...popular perceptions of a left-leaning and atheist Harvard student body are myths. At least in the case of religious and political attitudes, the Class of 1984 is noteworthy not for its differences with, but rather its similarities to Americans in the same age group with a similar educational Background...
...community. Many professors and almost all students go through their time at Harvard without ever coming in direct contact with the Corporation. The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the Corporation is officially called, tend to work quietly, methodically studying the issues before acting and remaining in the background when their decisions are implemented. On only a handful of issues--most notably investor shareholder responsibility--does the Corporation receive much public notice. The public sees little of the day-to-day workings of the Corporation, the meetings, reports, budgets, and deliberation which make up most of their chores...
...Class Agent for the Harvard College Fund in 1953, and which he now exercises as one of the Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen. "I guess I was just the sucker who got tapped," Stone says. "I'm the only one with a really strong business background, and that's why I'm interested in the money matters like the Campaign and the endowment...