Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Harvard's size where, as Jencks points out, the Administration has no effective mechanism for gauging the success of its programs. But if it is unavoidable, then the number of cases which Katz has termed "academic suicide," along with those others which Comstock has called "academic abandon," is likely to increase. Although the student who commits "suicide" pursues a vastly different career from the one who has chosen a life of "abandon," the two reactions are produced by the same set of causes...
...background. (Some are lazy.) But another group also fails -- a group which is unmistakably bright, full of curiosity and ambition. In their courses, they "under-achieve," for they seem to lack an interest in (and a respect for) the work. They opt for or fall into careers of academic abandon, and, at their best, make brilliant use of Harvard College. As a group they are widely misunderstood, and often confused with cases of "academic suicide"--a phrase describing students who have rebelled against the system with no idea of what they wanted, and who, consequently, have simply frittered away their...
More frequent paper assignments and more frequent contact with the heretofore anonymous men who read them would encourage a more active sense of student engagement in work as it goes along. Academic suicide, academic abandon, all of the varieties of student alienation from course work can be alleviated by greater concern with matters of teaching, by a dedication to the restoration of the student-teacher dialogue that is stilled in the lecture hall...
...contrast, what I call academic abandon is a sign of discretion, of the fruitful use of rebellion. The term is ambiguous, and is meant to suggest both a gay freedom within academic work and, at times, a partial abandonment of such work for other styles of learning. As a career, academic abandon calls for persistent and ruthless self-criticism and for judgment about what is worthwhile doing. It is a style difficult to maintain, but easy to fall into...
...able to "cream" an exam, who enjoy following their own lines of thought and study, who have faith (sometimes exaggerated) in their powers of self-education; who, in short, believe that they will learn best what they want to learn. In its first sense (a gay freedom within academics), abandon means staying away from vapid lectures, auditing widely, and mostly, haunting the libraries and bookstores, reading broadly and selectively, making up personal bibliographies. In its second sense (pursuing extracurricular activities), academic abandon suggests the development of rigorous, but non-academic styles of education. In every college activity there are loafers...