Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THAT ARROGANCE is an attractive proposition. It breeds easily in an institution that professes to take The Long View of human affairs, to see The Big Picture it is the heady sense of self-importance that dawns when you realize you are looking way beyond the trivialities of daily life...
That it why it is so easy to understand why the people who run Harvard run it the way they do--because it is really running them. When Harvard bleeds its unions at the bargaining table, when it spreads out into the city and evicts tenants along the way, when...
THAT IS WHY it is too easy to see the people who run Harvard as villains. To say that Derek Bok is an evil man because he will not pressure the Harvard Corporation to take certain economic stands, and because he isolates himself almost completely from undergraduates who want to...
Dean Rosovsky summed it up best a few months ago, when he told a gathering of students: "You are here for four years, I am here for life, and the institution is here forever." You cannot argue with that logic. The truth of it is obvious, and ineffably sad.
In 30 years these men and women might look back and wonder if the institution they served so well, and which will even then be served well by younger editions of themselves, might not have been served differently. They might wonder if the demands of the institution might not have...