Word: institutionalize
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The Javits is unique among federal scholarship programs for two reasons. As a portable fellowship, winning students can use the award at any institution they choose, though winners tend to congregate at the most elite institutions, including Harvard.
Though students can use the award at any institution, they tend to gravitate toward prestigious schools such as Harvard. Of the 80 to 100 fellows who receive awards each year, Harvard typically enrolls six.
The resolution also asserted that "lending the credibility of our institution to one who has so cruelly repudiated the ideas of free expression and debate demeans us all."
Even so, the institution of the Nobel prize retains significance for science because of the exposure it receives in the general public.
As a Harvard Square institution, the neon-lit Kong has inspired generations of Harvard students with its late-night Chinese fare and "scorpion bowls," an alcoholic punch drink.