Word: harvards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draw to a close, Harvard's fundamental goal--to remain "great"--has not altered...
...meantime, Harvard can keep itself perfectly busy just being Harvard...
...University haggles over the final details in a planned $2 billion fundraising drive, Bok and other top administrators say they are trying to steer Harvard toward the future. They want to broaden the University's international focus, to strengthen undergraduate education, to maintain Harvard's infrastructure and to bolster the size of the faculty...
These priorities describe a Harvard that is bigger and broader. A Harvard that is stronger. Not, however, a Harvard that is fundamentally different from the Harvard of today...
...truly substantive changes between the Harvard of 1989 and that of 1979 pale in comparison to the previous 10 years, or the 10 before that. The commotion of the past 10 years, the new policy initiatives and the new deans, the recurring waves of student protest seemed important at the time. But in retrospect, the 1980s seem to have made the minutest of marks on the pages of Harvard history...