Word: scholasticism
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It is important for politicians to consult intellectuals, Kennedy said, "to prevent us from becoming imprisoned by our own slogans" and "to bathe us in the cooling waters of the scholastic pool." But politics cannot easily be aligned with the intellectual goals of "the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination...
This fall came another innovation: the idea-patterned frankly and gratefully on Yale's "Scholars of the House"-that a few bright first classmen (seniors) should be freed to study largely on their own. Called "Trident Scholars," they are picked from the scholastic top 10%, get sprung from routine...
The varsity tennis team, its ranks depleted by graduation and scholastic troubles, journeys to Princeton this weekend to play in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League's fall tournament.
In the following years, scholastic reorganization in most Latin American countries incorporated to some extent the tenents of university autonomy. The strong arm of dictator Juan Vicente Gomez, however, slowed reform movements in Venezuela. Not until the mid 1940's, under the moderate leadership of President Isaias Medina, did larger...
With the failure of Venezuela's democracy in 1948, scholastic freedom disappeared. The Perez Jiminez regime carried out the projected programs of school construction and expansion, but the university system was run strictly by the Ministry of Education. The fall of Jiminez in 1958 resulted in the immediate reinstitution of...