Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Boston mutual funds, became treasurer in 1973--conspicuously, appointed by the same search committee he had chaired as a member of the Board of Overseers Putnam will step down on June 30 from his post, and the biggest feather he can put in his cap is the creation of the Management Company...
...officials and several experts on harassment, the Council debated a sweeping proposal, to establish a general harassment policy to address conflicts arising on the basis of gender, race, religious, sexual orientation or other factors. The plan stressed informal channels to handle complaints, but also called for the creation of a central office to handle grievances and disseminate information about harassment...
Reunions are not by chance Nostalgia needs its antidote, a brief re-creation of those moments of the hard, gem-like flame. So I may finally feel at home in Harvard Square, more, at least, than I ever did back then I am certain to find the same films at the Brattle, the same books in the Coop, and much the same music streaming from the windows in the Yard on those warm, sunny mornings of early summer. What will surprise are the students, how young they will be. Time has passed, and there will come in a rush...
...forward on the issue. In conversations with President Bok and other high-level University officials, the Black activists explored the idea of a new committee to monitor Harvard's efforts to hire Black faculty and staff. Their leg-work came to fruition this spring when Bok agreed to the creation of an ad hoc group to recommend new ways to better recruit, attract and hold on to Black faculty and administrators...
Nevertheless, I think there are some things one can say about the College "then and now." Despite all the things that have so clearly changed about Harvard, all the new buildings, the creation of a genuinely coeducational college, a restructured curriculum and an increased selectivity (after all, almost half of those who applied for admission to the Class of '59 were accepted by Harvard, three times the proportion of those accepted today), one comes away with the view that the experience of the College is very little changed. Perhaps one might argue that the experience of going to college changes...