Word: institutionalize
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How did Memorial Church become such a central religious institution at Harvard? While the history of Harvard has always been intertwined with Protestantism, Harvard was not founded simply as a Puritan seminary. From the beginning, Harvard had no institutional affiliation with a denomination. The installation of lawyer John Leverett as...
Already in his role as energy secretary, Chu has expressed intentions to reduce fossil-fuel dependence, decrease greenhouse-gas emissions, and harness existing energy sources in the most effective manner possible. His stated goals, substantiated by his concrete achievements, square nicely with the university’s recent environmental initiatives...
If the world will have them. Tianyu has purchased most of its fossil collection from individuals - an illegal practice permitted by authorities only because it is technically a state-owned institution. More problematic, however, is that there is no way of knowing how many of those fossils are real. Chinese...
Harvard is not the only institution in Cambridge that has clashed with city residents over the particulars of expanding its real estate holdings.
"It just seems like they've reached a point where they are going too far," says Darrell West, the director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution. And the sluggishness comes at a time when the government needs to have all hands on deck as quickly as possible. At this...