Word: scholasticism
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Members of the university administration, when explaining why they are in favor of the fraternities, can usually be counted upon to begin by reciting figures. The average scholastic standing of frat members they state, is higher than that of the student body as a whole.
If the Harvard Ph.D. is to remain a meaningful achievement, the GSAS must, admittedly, dispense with those students who simply enjoy Cambridge life, but have no real interest in a scholastic carrer. On the other hand, an arbitrary Ph.D. curriculum, such as Elder proposes, would also eliminate those students who...
Morris was vaguely disturbed by all this brooding on craft. He was disturbed by the intellectual exercises of imitating ancient forms by the thriceweekly traipses through the scholastic limbo of image-source and word derivation. Of course Morris was an egotist, and he awoke occasionally at midnight with the ugly...
"You're Fired." Unable to compete physically with the other brothers Eisenhower, young Milton went after recognition through mental achievement. To his surprise and surpassing pleasure, Milton found himself rising high in the esteem of brother Dwight, who rewarded Milton's scholastic accomplishments with prizes from his own...
Morris was vaguely disturbed by all this brooding on craft. He was disturbed by the intellectual exercises of imitating ancient forms, by the thrice-weekly traipses through the scholastic limbo of image-source and word derivation. Of course, Morris was an egotist, and he awoke occasionally at midnight with the...