Word: historicization
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Kaufman, for one, charges that Harvard hasturned the Square into a "mall" by leasing isproperty for top dollar without sufficient regardfor the historic character of the area.
When Widener Librarian Marion E. Schoon was given an old, aristocratic French name to research she logged into the College's library database and, after a few skillful search words, unearthed a clue: a historic museum in a town where a French family of the same name might have resided...
"It's a historic transition that's taking place," says de Gennaro. He added that in the last 200 years, Harvard libraries have moved from book catalogues to card catalogues, and are now turning to computers.
The protesters of 1969--in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their demands for severance of the University's ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps and their call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies department--defined a historic, activist era at Harvard.
So the issue is not urban sprawl. This is bigger stuff: a battle of cultures, a struggle between authentic and inauthentic America. Or as historian David McCullough, co-founder of the anti-Disney Protect Historic America committee, insists, a case of "synthetic history . . . destroying real history."