Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUCTW's president, Donene M. Williams, has a different explanation. Williams says that the recent collectivization of Harvard unions has proven a force for the administration to reckon with. Indeed, the University's three contract coups over the past two years have come from unions that belong to the coalition...
...ability into a narrowly-defined conception of achievement. Harvard was great because of its Nobel laureates and its alumni heads of state, because it filled corporate boardrooms and seats in Congress. Its dominance of this type of accomplishment seemed enchanted. Good people came to Harvard to be challenged and proven against the mettle of the very best and to ride away into the world redeemed and self-satisfied by the experience. Their achievement was measured in wealth and prestige, in artistic and academic fame and in the myriad fields in which humans could excel...
...cultivate them. Harvard attracts some of the very finest administrators and faculty to set examples for some of the most promising students. One of the most rewarding things about having spent time here is discovering that this is so, that the most successful people are those who have proven themselves in tangible fields, but who more importantly have concerned themselves with more intangible human qualities. These people seek self-development for its own sake, show a concern for the community around them and relate to others in a way that is abidingly compassionate, never complacent and always curious...
Students say they are getting frustrated because winning even the smallest concessions in faculty and courses has proven difficult...
...post has proven a sore point for the president and, in some ways, one of his greatest failures...