Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard University began its three hundred and ninth academic year Wednesday with a total of 1,284 civilian students, the smallest enrollment since 1875. In addition, there are now some 5,000 Navy officers and enlisted men, and some 1,000 Army trainees, in the special training schools at the...
Harvard Commencement is the oldest and most dignified cerement in the United States, excepting certain ecclesiastical rites. The word Commencement is simply a translation of the Latin "inceptio," and means that you then commence Bachelor or Master of Arts or whatever academic rank you are entering. The ceremony has come...
The Sheriff of Middlesex County, girt with his sword of office as representative of sovereignty, calls the meeting to order. The assembly is opened with prayer. The President takes his place in the ancient Tudor chair which has been the Harvard President's seat of office for over two centuries...
Except for translating it into English--which was done as recently as 1896--there has been little change in the formula for the B.A. since Harvard was founded. The several higher degrees are then conferred; and finally, the honorary degrees. As it has been kept a dead secret who are...
President Hutchins believes, and has said (TIME, May 1) that a university should crusade for "a moral, intellectual and spiritual revolution." The faculty prefers the orthodox academic position: the advancement of knowledge by research and teaching independent of any moral commitment except to "the Truth."