Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the city has been able to take an interest in Harvard issues that effect Cambridge residents, it sometime finds that providing services and inspecting such a large institution is more than it can handle.
Harvard is "changing slowly because it's a big institution. When you have a large institution like this, the incentive for change is minimized. Sometimes it's slow to change," O'Neill says.
This year event after event highlighted how the barriers separating Harvard from the real world have crumbled in the last decades. Gone are the days when the nation's leading institution of higher learning could go about its business in splendid isolation.
Obviously, financial donations to Harvard are crucial to maintaining its position as the nation's premier institution of higher learning--not to mention the nation's richest. But if officials give into the temptation to sell bits and pieces to the highest bidder, how can the University maintain its institutional...
Horner now holds a full-time, $82,000-a-year post as the head of Radcliffe and can look back on a host of achievements that, if not academic, have changed the history of the 109-year-old institution. And today she says that her erstwhile job description for the...