Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the Army's records, it was listed as the Loire Detention Training Center at Le Mans, but in the memories of G.I.s the institution (100 miles southwest of Paris) was the "Continental Stockade." Whether they had suffered its rigors while confined for offenses against military law, or whether...
Last week Washington's Smithsonian Institution proudly announced completion of a postwar project: a new reconstruction of the dodo, a rare item in U.S. museums. Smithsonian curators were sure that their newest version, made in almost equal parts of old bones, guttapercha, historical data and imagination, is the most...
But even with these new features, the returning servicemen will recognize the pre-war College as it changes from its role of a training school for war to an institution building for peace
Over three hundred years ago, the General Court of the Company of Massachusetts Bay appropriated 400 pounds for the founding of a "schoale or colledge." Although two years went by before the proposed institution actually opened its doors, and was officially named "Harvard" in honor of its first benefactor, 1636...
"Most career men (diplomats) begin right by possessing a private school or tutor background and a Harvard education. Schooling at this institution, which delights in the soubriquet of the American Oxford, gives a clipped accent not unlike the British speech."--Chicago Tribune, January 6.