Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring up student concerns because I worry that students are becoming an ever-smaller part of the University equation. I understand that undergraduate students in particular have always been a small part of the institution as a whole. I can recite the well-worn saying, quoted by President Rudenstine in a recent Faculty meeting, in my sleep: "The students are here for four years, the Faculty for a lifetime, but Harvard is forever." I have come to understand that the University is many more things than a school. Harvard as a scholarly and research-oriented institution is top-notch...
Even though the biggest areas of concern have been handled for the most part, smaller areas--scientific labs and desktop computers in particular--remain vulnerable...
...assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awakened white America as a whole--and Harvard in particular--to racial inequality. While Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 led a service honoring King inside Memorial Church, about 80 black students stood outside in protest, one reportedly saying, "We don't want their tears--we want black people to have a place at Harvard...
...ensure that sufficient attention is given to racial and ethnic diversity, however, since the 1970s, the committee on admissions often employed an additional reader, explains Lewis, "to help the committee be sure that each candidate's particular circumstances (especially connected to ethnicity or culture) did not obscure the excellence of the case...
...particular, they have requested a roof of their own to go over offices and meeting space--a "women's center" like the ones found on all other Ivy campuses and at colleges across the country...