Word: academicization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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But in their defense, the mandarins of modern Harvard may not have been aware of what, exactly, the whole year 2000 extravaganza was commemorating. If you believe their academic jargon, after all, we've just completed two thousand years of the "Common Era"--which apparently took over when the Uncommon...
Gerson said students are selected for this prestigious honor because of their academic and extracurricular excellence and not because of the college they attend.
"We choose individuals, not colleges," he said. "Essential prerequisites include high academic excellence and other qualities such as leadership, vigor and concern for others."
"We talked about how race, gender and sexuality influence the way your academic life is, and the intersectionality of these, particularly within Harvard," said Sarah E. Tavel '04, who organized the discussion.
Such sentiments are less than encouraging for the aspiring Harvard critic-or critical professor. It may in fact be that academic impulse to perfect poetry, to make it the carefully crafted product of a deliberate mind, is misguided. "The thing people don't realize is that poetry is not cerebral...