Word: regains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment candidates make their second annual bid for seats on the Board of Overseers, the role of that governing body is coming under increasing scrutiny. Some critics say that, the 30-member board should regain its historical prominence in the government of Harvard...
...dramas and scandals over the past 20 years--Vietnam, Watergate, Wall Street--suddenly has had an impact," says Dillon Professor of French Civilization Stanley Hoffmann, who teaches a course on "Ethics and International Relations" at Harvard. Hoffmann adds that the country must now try to regain and transmit its values...
...American history at Harvard struggles to regain the prominence it once had, the English department's wing is having difficulties...
...Sociology department has also been struggling for several years to regain the stature it once held as the nation's premiere department. This fall, the department granted tenure offers to three sociologists, and despite a history of offers being rebuffed, the department received three positive responses...
...traditions, who felt profoundly comfortable in the heat of a stultifying Southern summer, these tug at me and tell me I must return to the South bearing gifts from Harvard, that I must give up my great love of the intensity and impatience of the North in order to regain a place in the South...