Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"It is even possible that as, under the Roman Empire, Christianity drew out of and inherited from the other Oriental religions the heart of what was best in them, so the present religions of India and the form of Buddhism that is practiced today in the Far East may contribute...
Imprisonment and silencing of "a large number" of the faculty of Charles University in Prague by the new regime in Czechoslovakia led President Conant last Monday to take the drastic step of withdrawing the University's emissary to the 600th anniversary celebration of the central European institution.
In 1718 he made a gift of a building to the New Haven educational institution which was to bear his name. He died three years later--but his spirit still lives on today in the school that is his namesake, in Cole Porter sougs, in Nadherny, Jackson, Furse, and Fuche...
That the building was intended for Harvard use is certainly true, but it seems of no great importance. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is certainly a Harvard institution, but its members and its Dean have worked intelligently with Radcliffe to provide a workable, useful relationship between the two schools...
Does prayer bring tangible results? Last week the British Court of Appeals doubted it. A priory of Carmelite nuns had claimed they were entitled to accept a $20,000 trust fund left to them as a "charitable institution." Their prayers benefited mankind, the nuns argued. Therefore, they were dispensing charity...