Word: faustian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commencement address to alumni this June, President Derek C. Bok described a Faustian nightmare in which he sold off the University piece by piece to raise money for the endowment...
...story is a corny one, but the message is important. It is especially relevant now when it appears that one small part of the University has fallen into its own pathetic Faustian nightmare...
...commencement ceremonies last June, President Derek C. Bok told the assembled multitude of his "Faustian cycle" of nightmares, in which a slick New York banker urges him to sell the University off bit by bit in return for millions of dollars in new funds...
...feel Harvard has seriously broken faith with my father," said John S. Stillman '40. "It's as though one of President Bok's Faustian nightmares, the subject of his Commencement address, had come true...
...feel Harvard has seriously broken faith with my father," said John S. Stillman '40. "It's as though one of President Bok's Faustian nightmares, the subject of his Commencement address, had come true...