Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...end, though, it will be Bok's decision whether to tenure Vail and end junior history professors' decades-long losing streak...
Ironically, Harvard finished its most ambitious fundraising effort--the 350th anniversary campaign--just three years ago, promising alums that it would be enough to lay the foundation for the University at least until the end of the century...
EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...
PERHAPS the watershed event of the year--the event which showed students' ability to govern themselves--was that which unfolded at year's end, eventually before headlines nationwide. When the Undergraduate Council voted on April 24 to ask for the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps to Harvard (ROTC), it believed it was performing a service to the 90-odd undergraduate ROTC participants forced to commute to MIT for the program...
...end of a period tagged a decade of greed, which followed a "me generation" and a so-called age of permissiveness, the return of concern is encouraging. And, 25 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and 20 years after such politics culminated in students taking over University Hall, the tumult was refreshing...