Word: endowment
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Nobody really forgets about the tourists. Rather, John Harvard’s adoring visitors endow the ritual with meaning. Harvard students do not pee on the statue in spite of its significance. They pee on the statue because of its significance. Urinating on the monument to higher education in America is a bizarre attempt at self-affirmation. It says: "Not only do I go to Harvard, but I spit, nay, pee, on it as well...
...decanal appointments and meets frequently with the deans of each school, who make decisions at the earlier stages of the tenure process. The president also has the ability to set the direction for scholarship through various means of leadership, such as directing funds towards certain disciplines and helping to endow chairs in them. For instance, in the 1990s, the growth of what is now Harvard’s African and African American Studies department can be largely attributed to the leadership of President Neil L. Rudenstine as well as the respected and ambitious department chair Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis...
Bowties make people look like douche bags. This is just a fact about bowties. They endow 70-year-old men with an air of the ridiculous that is usually reserved for chimps that work for NASA. If they do this for septuagenarians, trust me when I say that they practically make 18 year olds look like Bill Nye the Science...
...chimp in a business suit seem so deeply ridiculous--are somehow encoded within minute fractions of our genetic code. Nobody yet knows precisely where they are or how they work, but somewhere in the nuclei of our cells are handfuls of amino acids, arranged in a specific order, that endow us with the brainpower to outthink and outdo our closest relatives on the tree of life. They give us the ability to speak and write and read, to compose symphonies, paint masterpieces and delve into the molecular biology that makes us what...
Rather than hiring a third-party provider to administer the network, as other cities have done, Boston will find an existing non-profit organization—or endow a new one—to run the system...