Word: preservationism
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The result is a tension and a paradox. On the one hand, inefficiency, stagnation and alienation are the inevitable accompaniments of the centralization, elitism and repression that are necessary to carry out the first order of business: the preservation of power. On the other hand, the political system is well...
In 1979, the Aga Khan gave $11.5 million to Harvard and MIT to establish a joint program for the study and preservation of Islamic architecture.
Armistead said Harvard would try to work out some settlement with community residents; several preservation groups were offered the two buildings--one an example of Greek revival architecture and the other of inexpensive early 19th century housing--on the condition that they move them from the site, he added.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)--a Harvard Affiliate--and Historic Boston, a historic building preservation fund, are negotiating a deal that would put a stop to hospital plans for demolishing its 90-year-old Resident Physicians House, and instead move the building to a new location.
Closer ties between major research universities and corporate America will ensure "the revitalization of our nation's economy and the preservation of our national security and way of life," Rhodes said in a state of the university address, the Cornell Daily Sun reported.