But education experts now agree that we went too far, so we're belatedly trying to recreate smaller, more intimate institutions.
It is probably also one of the most intimate institutions, being the only one-house, nonpartisan legislature in the nation, and also the smallest with only 49 members.
As recent studies (such as those conducted by Pew) have shown, even the most intimate "institutions" such as the formal, socially sanctioned union of persons in marriage, have steadily suffered erosion.
Thomas G. Ferrara, the chairman of the board, calls Community Mutual "the old plain-vanilla bank" and compares it to the mythical and intimate small-town institution in the Christmas chestnut "It's a Wonderful Life".
But many of the foreign ministers speaking around the horseshoe table on Friday still intimated that the institution's future power would rise or fall directly as a consequence of Iraq.
And for a more intimate view of the institution, there's the Tournament House and Wrigley Gardens (a.k.a. the Wrigley Mansion, 391 S. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena).
This is a survey of work by L.A.-based artist Frances Stark, whose wide-ranging practice — she's done everything from carbon drawings to elaborate digital animations — covers a similarly broad terrain of subjects, including critiques of institutions and intimate views of the artist's personal life including animated productions of private online chats.
In these institutions the intimate contact and promiscuity among boarding students may increase airborne infections [ 3, 15, 27- 29].
"The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions" (HarperCollins; £17.99) is a mix of personal experience, historical scholarship and political commentary and commitment.
The beleaguered UN-backed government in Mogadishu has no other partners with a strong security force, democratic institutions and an intimate knowledge of Somali culture, language, clan system and politics.
