Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the heart and mind of the institution--none of the other faculties are nearly as important," Rosovsky said, eliciting chuckles from the crowd.
Observes Bruce MacLaury, president of the Brookings Institution, which is no longer quite the hotbed of Keynesianism that it once was: "It has been hard for the Keynesians to contend that their prescriptions are the way out of stagflation. Ultimately, they are forced to admit that Keynesian techniques just bring...
Then there are sections, an institution Harvard developed to make up for the impersonality of its mass-market courses. Most big courses you take will split into groups of 20-or-so people under the tutelage of a graduate student, who will most likely bore you for an hour a...
Behind the Corporation is the even more shadowy Board of Overseers--shadowy almost to the point of insubstantiality, as far as most students are concerned. The Overseers are organized into visiting committees, one for each Harvard department or institution. What do these committees do? Well, they visit. They talk to...
Harvard has more, and more intractable, red tape than any institution you'd care to name short of the federal government. Learning how to deal with it--how to take "no" for an answer, or how to persuade people you're only bending the rules when you're really breaking...