Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the English minister, early Harvard graduates were taught to seek "the preservation of a more perfect polity," Epps said. "These early graduates pursued the highest ideals. Pursuit of high standards of this kind certainly survives in the life of the college today."
To my mind, the passing of the Busch-Reisinger would be a real loss; for neither the Fogg nor Sackler can boast of an equally broad display of one culture's objects d'art, a display which so illuminates that culture's history and aspirations. Consider, too, the Busch-Reisinger...
Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy William Alonso said, "If we don't have population growth, it is likely that the future of the design of the city will have to deal with preservation. That will require some fairly inventive transformation of design."
While Bok may be committed to an end to apartheid, his primary allegiance lies with the preservation of the centra, relationships of authority that have characterized normal life at the University during his tenure. Carefully and deliberately Bok wants to insure that he and the Corporation alone will have a...
Some believe that Americans have entirely too much freedom: all engine, no brakes, the great vehicle careering all over the road, the Lowest Common Denominator at the wheel, grinning like an idiot, hurling beer cans out the window. In many minds, freedom is a license to indulge. If the old...