Word: umbrellaism
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...institute would have brought the Faculty of Arts and Science’s three principal pedagogical resources—the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Harvard Writing Project and the Instructional Computing Group—under one roof. And Allen said the creation of such an umbrella organization “would restructure administrative lines of command, and perhaps create more lines of command.” This would, he said, reduce the influence of the existing institutions’ administrators, who would now find themselves under the direction of the institute...
...long been popular with visitors to France, and now Florent Dargnies, a 24-year-old entrepreneur, has started a touring company that ferries passengers in and around Paris in vintage 2CVs. Dargnies got the idea for his outfit, 4roues-sous-1parapluie (four wheels under one umbrella, an allusion to the car's simple canvas roof), last spring when he was stopped by throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon...
...access easily and smoothly the assistance best suited to their needs,” Hyman wrote. “The Bureau and MHS are being brought together—each continuing to provide its unique services to students, but communicating and working together more effectively under a shared umbrella and a new leader...
...applied to spend Spring Break rolling up their shirtsleeves rather than pulling out their bikinis. Instead of jetting off to exotic locales, applicants to the Alternative Spring Break (ASB) service trips hoped to spend their break performing meaningful community service. Although the mission statement of PBHA—the umbrella organization supervising ASB—includes a clause on promoting “social awareness and community involvement at Harvard and beyond,” multiple students were rejected from the program. The ASB trip to New York City—which involved students preparing and delivering meals for individuals...
...Harvard’s concerned females were joined under one umbrella organization, they could certainly be more effective. Communication and resource sharing between the groups would be easier and more efficient, and as a political tactic, one united voice certainly has more power to bend the ear of the administration than many factious ones...