Word: scholasticism
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Adams dominated high school swimming in Michigan for three years, capturing four individual state titles and earning scholastic All-American recognition.
"HE did not belong to that scholastic fraternity," a friend said of Samuel Miller yesterday. Miller was above all a minister. He would have preferred to remain pastor of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church rather than taking the post of Dean of Harvard's Divinity School. But as Dean, Miller...
THE Faculty, last year, failed to decide whether the University as an institution should disassociate itself from the Selective Service System by refusing to compute student rank lists. Now that II-S deferments are no longer granted on the basis of an undergraduate's scholastic standing, this issue of University...
The son of a Harvard graduate who was practicing medicine in Milton, he entered the College in 1929 as the nation plunged into the Great Depression. In four years, he performed amazing athletic and scholastic feats, winning All-America and Phi Beta Kappa honors. When he graduated in 1932, he...
...wrong and simplistic to think that, simply because these "modern students" are not the same kind of dedicated academics their predecessors were, they are antagonistically anti-intellectual. To be sure, they resent the emphasis on professional training, on medieval scholasticism, and on ethereal abstractions. But this does not mean they are anti-intellectual, any more than it means that the medieval scholastic is a true intellectual. Often, just the opposite is the case: we've all had times when we've felt that we've learned far more from a good bull-session than we have from a lecture...