Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As the months dragged on and the answers remained few, however, the fervor was replaced by malaise. Between June 1998 and February of this year, five top Radcliffe officials left the college. When Radcliffe advertised some of their posts as "interim," many saw an institution uncertain about its future form...
And admissions officers often find that theUniversity's graduate schools are more famous thanthe undergraduate institution.
"It's very difficult for any institution tocatch up with Harvard as a research institution,"Stevens says. For example, Oxford University islosing some of its prospective students to schoolslike Harvard because it is impossible for auniversity with, as Stevens says, "a $2 billionendowment and a government that is hostile to...
"There's a sense that religion is so privatethat the institution doesn't have to be aware ofthese things," he says.
Harvard, Puritan institution that it was, took Hooker's advice to heart and adopted his phrase as the motto that would govern the separate parts it established over the years. Each school of the University--referred to as a "tub" by Harvard administrators--has its own faculty, its own endowment...