Word: established
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...problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line." W.E.B. Dubois's classic statement is still true. Harvard's refusal to establish a standing committee on ethnic studies indicates a serious lack of vision...
Dean Knowles's letter came in response to the recommendations of a student advisory committee on ethnic studies at Harvard. The group asked the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to upgrade Harvard's existing ad hoc committee to a standing committee, to establish ethnic studies as a concentration and to provide it with four endowed professorships...
...diversity of academic perspectives within the faculty--we fail to see where Harvard's existing departments fail in this regard. We have professors who examine intellectual history, and some few, perhaps, who still look at dialectical materialism as the prime mover, but we do not feel compelled to establish separate disciplines for their work...
...years ago, when the web was in its infancy, it was composed mainly of computer science departments and academic databases. As any average Internet user has discovered, many companies quickly mounted sites to establish an on-line presence, but in their haste failed to provide truly interesting or unique information...
That bit of legal deconstruction may undermine the concept of justice, but it proved prophetic in the Woburn case. It was not difficult to establish that the carcinogenic solvent trichloroethylene had contaminated soil at the defendants' plants. But had the TCE discovered in the town drinking water come from those sources? If so, could it have caused the blood cancers and other disorders...