Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The essential framework within which the tuition rise must be considered is this: Harvard is run as a $200 million business, not as a humanitarian institution. It is a business policy of the University, for better or for worse, that each of the divisions, such as the Law School or...
Something Old. People have always needed policing, but they have not always had policemen. Medieval watchmen were supposed to cry out if evil was abroad; the folk tumbled out and did their own law enforcing. The very word police (in its present meaning), like the institution it stands for, is...
To make his own distinctly Russian substitute for a "form of social order," Czar Nicholas I (called "The Nightstick") in 1826 decided to create a new thing, a secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene...
Claiming the longest continued career in silviculture of any similar institution in the land, the Forest has grown from a tract of miscellaneous woodlots and abandoned farmland of 1907, the year it came into the University hands, into a "model forest" and experiment station for demonstrating forestry practices. In addition...
By 4 o'clock, it had begun to snow again and the end of the warning had been reached, so the moderator adjourned town meeting for another year. The citizens of Calais, proud of New England's peculiar institution and generally pleased with the outcome of the elections, filed out...