Word: mission
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence endorsed a controversial plan to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf Station in Harvard Square, he signaled victory for Harvard's bureaucratic interests at the expense of its academic mission...
...deal completely empty-handed. The faculty exacted a commitment from President Derek C. Bok to be represented in future decisions affecting property development, and the Gulf site will ultimately end up in FAS's hands. Nevertheless, if we accept that Harvard's primary purpose is its academic mission, a compromise as unpalatable to the Faculty as this is still unacceptable...
...point, he also mourned the slaying of Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, who was taken hostage on a U.N. mission in Lebanon in February 1988 and subsequently slain. He called Higgins "a man of unquestioned bravery and unswerving dedication to the U.N. ideal" and called on the General Assembly to condemn the murder...
Harvard's medical area lies adjacent to the Mission Hill neighborhood of Roxbury where moderate drug activity occurs. And according to Cambridge Police, the Pit in Harvard Square is a hotbed of L. S. D. sales. These areas provide Harvard with the opportunity to put the war against drugs into action...
...city a curious destiny as a metaphysical place on the edge of ordinary life. "It's the end of the railroad line. It's the end of the bus line. It's the end of the airline. It's the end of the expressway," says Barry Durman, the mission's director. "Once you get here, where...