Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tunnels connecting almost every Harvard building, you can hear no noise from the street, feel no breeze, smell nothing. The air is humid and temperatures in the tunnels reach 120 degrees in the places, creating a tropical atmosphere. The eight-foot gray concrete walls shelter the University's vital organs--steam, water, and electric lines...
...immortal institution, they assume that this generation has no business reviewing or revising the way Harvard operates. The protectors instead turned the Yard into a museum, for all to admire but for none to touch. Students, considered in the Rosovsky scenario as the most fleeting and least vital operatives at Harvard, had another little celebration later in the fall and most did not even attend the September party. A small group made an unexpected, cameo appearance at a 350th dinner for 600 prominent alumni, where they blockaded and forced the cancellation of the black-tie affair. The disruptive blockade showed...
...theories ignore the vital fact that without the student body Harvard is reduced to its secondary roles as a research institution, a library and an investment firm. The University offers teaching and education not as a consumer commodity but as its own primary focus. Yet those who pay to be taught and educated accept their relegation to the realm of passive recipient. The theories also obscure what has become a central tenet at most educational institutions: the experience of living and functioning in a university environment equals or surpasses the classroom in educational importance. Many students are and the rest...
...Right now, we have a mental problem," said Head Coach Pete Roby. "We have the personnel right now to win, but we lack a toughness in concentration that is vital...
Third, divestment candidates, though not explicitly committed to broad reforms, necessarily will work to reestablish to board's influence in the vital area of finance. President Derek C. Bok and the six other members of the Corporation control virtually every aspect of the $715 million budget and $4 billion endowment. In order even to call divestment to a vote, Overseers would have to investigate and to assume increased responsibility for Harvard's purse, limiting to some extent the self-perpetuating Corporation's primary source of power. Although Bok includes Overseers in some of the financial decisions facing the University, divestment...