Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The fact is, leaving college with no permanent strings attached is a frightening and exhilarating idea; but we aren't simply more adventurous than our parents were. No, there have been fundamental differences in the last 40-odd years that, I think, have led to a reconceptualization of the institution...
Both Smith and Bourne said genuine feeling forthe institution motivates their desire to seeRadcliffe change, but they worry that the spiritof the discussion failed to elicit constructivesuggestions.
"If you're trying to define who you are, whystart in the hole?" Wong asked, who said shethinks the tagline "college" only fuels confusionfor the institution.
"Women who get in to Harvard are gettingdeceived to a certain degree. Radcliffe isn't adegree-granting institution-- it's one moresignature on the diploma," Smith said. "That'sdeception that Radcliffe has more power andinfluence than it really has, and plays a biggerrole in women's lives than it actually...
Back home in Manhattan he agrees to serve as president of "the Forty," an honorary association of artists whose aging members no longer find anyone younger worthy of filling vacancies left by the deceased. "If we don't ever manage to elect anybody," Bech lectures the group, "the institution will...