Word: bitter
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...climatic change occurred in 1865 after a bitter 10-year power struggle between the two governing boards. The University was still tied to the state, and the Corporation and Overseers engaged in running feuds with the legislature and each other over issues such as admissions, curriculum, and whether the University should support Unitarianism. In 1850 Governor George Bartwell tried to obtain for the legislature the power to elect members of the Corporation for six year terms. The bill was defeated, but after vigorous debate a compromise was reached which signaled the end of the old system. The Corporation was left...
...much debate, but it is precisely on this issue of credibility that the University's efforts appear to be flagging. Skepticism arose during the handling of the Dominguez case; it became more widespread as the results of the survey became known; and, for some at least, gained a bitter edge with the Faculty Council's decision to reject the proposal for a general harassment policy and central office. "They're saying, 'We're giving you an opportunity to trust us,' and not giving us any reason to trust them," said Joseph P. DiNunzio '84, one of the authors...
...fact of the matter is that the University is reaping the bitter fruit of its past negligence. Administrators may be sincere when they voice a commitment to vigorously deterring harassment and punishing actual transgressions, but such protestations cannot dispel the cynicism engendered by remarks from male professors ridiculing the idea of sexual harassment for example, a professor's remark, as reported in the survey that harassment was only the product of "feminine hysteria." Bold measures are needed to combat such myopia. Sadly enough, however, when hold measures were proposed this year--for instance to establish a central harassment office...
These are among the gripes surfacing in the University's recent survey of the condition of Harvard's junior faculty. The questionnaires, distributed several months ago, are just now being collated, but preliminary indications point to large numbers of assistant and associate professors who harbor bitter grievances about their workload, their relations with senior faculty, and their chances for tenure...
...much healthier not to allow oneself to hope for tenure," says one language teacher. "You run into an awful lot of ex-Harvard assistant professors who are extraordinarily bitter about the place," adds another scientist. For example, one associate professor recently denied tenure said last week that he didn't feel like bothering to answer the University Hall questionnaire: "I told them to go soak their heads...