Word: scholasticism
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That is the Harvard coaching staff and they have a tremendous job ahead of them, because losses through graduation and scholastic difficulties have riddled the ranks of last year's squad. And the coaches have been gnashing their teeth and swearing that honor demands a war with Japan. The baseball...
This fellowship program affords opportunity for talented boys of limited means who would otherwise find it difficult to obtain a college education. The selection was based on considerations of character, originality, and initiative, as well as school records, and the results of the scholastic aptitude tests and any other college...
Father O'Hara has never cared much about watching his university's famed football team in action. But before every game, each of which is dedicated to a saint, Notre Dame footballers go to him at the Shrine of St. Olaf for prayer and blessing. When President Emeritus...
"The lack of scholastic ambition," President Lowell writes, "and respect for scholarly attainment by the average American undergraduate has been due in part to the comparative absence of genuine and serious academic competition; in part to the fact that he has been inclined to believe that college grades as ordinarily...
The class is unable to boar the weight of this scholastic burdon for long--and from here its history rushes to the end, finishing inspite of this ugly Intrusion with the coy faminine giggle--"we leave the school choolt full of our youthful arrogance and know-it-all, and we...