Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cultural Historian Barzun is a traditionalist who feels that "the university is an institution transcending time and geography." He is distressed because too many academic institutions have become too involved with contemporary problems, too influenced by a misguided zeal for community service. The trouble, Barzun says, can be traced to...
Marshaling Money. One way the government hopes to counter the problem is by increasing Australian capital available for new investments. It recently started the Australian Resources Development Bank, a semigovernmental institution that marshals local funds and directs them to new projects. In its biggest project so far, the resources bank...
Both the HRPC and the HUC had passed resolutions earlier this month asking for changes in ROTC's academic status, and the HRPC issued a ten-page report on Sunday attacking "the role of the military in a liberal arts institution."
The ROTC Units clearly hold a special status within Harvard. The HRPC recommends that the ROTC status be modified by withdrawing academic credit for ROTC course offerings. This recommendation is not meant to challenge the existence of ROTC programs at Harvard. We do feel, however, that change in the present...
IT IS DIFFICULT to determine what extent credit for ROTC courses is an inducement to take ROTC programs, although the inducement does seem less than has been claimed. ROTC programs should not be made appealing at the sacrifice of essential principles of the liberal arts institution, especially when the basis...