Word: academicizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an attitude comes like a breath of much- needed fresh air in an academic world grown somewhat musty with too much concern for the mechanical means of education and too little attention to the long-run ends. Though one can perhaps charge Mr. Frost and those of his kind...
The Committee saw a need for an efficient placement service because of increased competition for academic posts throughout the country, and "uneasiness due to frequency of turnover" among the best younger teachers as promotion here becomes more difficult. Such a service, the report said, will "enhance the desirability of non...
It is understood that Russell, dignified by the title of Assistant to the President of the University, will travel extensively, making contacts with educators and establishing Harvard's position in the market for academic talent.
When quaint Dexter Merriam Keezer became president of little Reed College (Portland, Ore.) five years ago, he ventured a purely academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves...
One hundred and one undergraduates who attained marked excellence in their work during the past academic year have been awarded Honorary Harvard College Scholarships for the current academic year, as follows: